Systems and Methods for Dynamic Authorization of Virtual Bank Account Transactions

ABSTRACT

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a receiver processor, a transaction authorization request to authorize a transaction associated with a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from a user, the request including publicly routable account credentials of a virtual bank account (VBAN) generated by the receiver processor, the VBAN being associated with the receiving entity, the user, and a stored value balance of an external resource account generated by a receiver financial entity associated with the user, retrieving, from a VBAN database, a transaction resource configuration of the VBAN decoupled from the external resource account, determining whether parameters of the transaction resource configuration are satisfied based on metadata associated with the request, and transmitting, to the external server, a transaction authorization response indicating whether the transaction is authorized to cause the stored value balance to be reduced based on the transfer of resources.

PRIORITY

This application is a continuation under 35 U.S.C. § 120 of U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 17/859,954, filed 7 Jul. 2022, which isincorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This disclosure generally relates to databases and file managementwithin network environments, and in particular, relates to hardware andsoftware for securing and validating multi-server electroniccommunications within network environments.

BACKGROUND

Payment systems provided by banks and other financial institutions areused in lieu of tendering cash in domestic and internationaltransactions. A payment system is any system used to transact, clear,and settle payment transactions through the transfer of currency (e.g.,monetary currency, virtual currency, etc.). This includes theinstitutions, instruments, people, entities, services, rules,procedures, standards, and technologies that make its exchange possible.A common type of payment system is called an operational network, whichlinks bank accounts and provides for monetary exchange using bankdeposits. Some payment systems also include credit mechanisms, which areessentially agreements with financial entities to lend currency toborrowers to be repaid at a later point in time.

Traditional payment systems include negotiable instruments such asdrafts (e.g., cheques) and documentary credits such as letters ofcredit. With the advent of computers and electronic communications, manyalternative electronic payment systems have emerged. The term electronicpayment refers to a payment made from one bank account to another usingelectronic methods, forgoing the need for bank employees to directlyfacilitate each transaction. In particular, the term electronic paymentmay refer to e-commerce, i.e., a payment for buying and selling goods orservices offered through an electronic transfer of funds (e.g., throughthe Internet or other suitable computer network environments). Incontrast to traditional payment systems, modern payment systems utilizeelectronic transactions based on debit cards, credit cards, electroniccards, electronic funds transfers, direct credits, direct debits,internet banking, and other forms of e-commerce payment systems.

Payment systems may be physical or electronic, and each payment systemmay have its own procedures and protocols. Standardization has allowedsome of these systems and networks to grow to a global scale, but thereare still many country-specific, platform-specific, entity-specific,and/or product-specific systems. Examples of payment systems that havebecome globally ubiquitous are credit cards and automated teller machine(ATM) networks. Other specific forms of payment systems are also used tosettle financial transactions for products in the equity markets, bondmarkets, currency markets, futures markets, derivatives markets, andoptions markets. Additionally, various techniques exist to transferfunds between financial institutions. Domestically, this is accomplishedusing automated clearing house (ACH) and real-time gross settlement(RTGS) systems. Internationally, this is accomplished using the Societyfor Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) network.

SUMMARY OF PARTICULAR EMBODIMENTS

In particular embodiments, a receiver processor may automatically secureand validate multi-server electronic communications over a plurality ofnetworks without requiring additional physical or programmaticinfrastructure on the intermediary servers/entities. The receiverprocessor may communicate with different entities in a payment system,either directly or indirectly, to facilitate account/card generation andtransaction payment processing. As an example and not by way oflimitation, these entities may comprise an account holder such as anindividual payer, a commerce entity such as a merchant, an enterpriseclient, a payment network, a receiver institution such as an issuingbank, an originator institution such as an acquiring bank, a receiverprocessor, an originator processor, a payment facilitator, othersuitable entities, or any combination thereof. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor may utilize (and/or make available)application programming interface (API) resources, which may provide apredictable and programmatic interface to create and configureaccounts/cards and facilitate electronic transactions associated withthe accounts/cards. As an example and not by way of limitation, based onreal-time payment data, the receiver processor may programmaticallyissue cards, configure card permissions, and set authorizationparameters (e.g., spending limits, periodic limits, merchant locking,location matching, risk thresholds, etc.) all through an API generatedby, implemented by, and/or provided by a receiver processor. As anotherexample and not by way of limitation, during a transaction, the receiverprocessor may authenticate requests from individual payers or enterpriseclients via the API, and return the authentication results to them viathe API. As yet another example and not by way of limitation, during atransaction, the receiver processor may verify transaction requests frommerchants, payment networks, acquirer processors, issuing banks, and/oracquiring banks via the API, and return the verification results to themvia the API. Although this disclosure describes particular functions ofparticular issuer processors in a particular manner, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable function of any suitable issuer processor inany suitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may provide a dynamicand customizable development platform for implementing solutions todecouple a user's root account, including credentials and stored valuebalances for the root account, from publicly routable accountcredentials. The user may be, for example, an individual payer, anenterprise client, or employees of an enterprise client. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor may decouple a user's root accountfrom publicly routable account credentials with a virtual bank account(VBAN) having a Payment Account Number (PAN). Although this disclosurerefers to VBAN throughout, this disclosure contemplates any suitablemeans of decoupling a user's root account from publicly routable accountcredentials. The receiver processor may allow VBANs to fully participatein financial interchange networks and clearing houses by sending andreceiving payments or transactions. By utilizing permission-based VBANscustomized for user-specific use cases, the receiver processor mayfacilitate real-time payments or transactions (as opposed to, e.g.,simply caching funds) while protecting sensitive financial information,shielding users against fraud and overbilling, and ensuring that eachapproved transaction conforms to specific parameters applicable to thattransaction. Although this disclosure describes implementing VBANs byparticular processors in a particular manner, this disclosurecontemplates implementing VBANs by any suitable processor in anysuitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may receive, from anexternal server, a transaction authorization request to authorize atransaction associated with a transfer of resources to a receivingentity from a user. The receiver processor may then retrieve, from anassociated database, a transaction resource configuration of a VBAN fortransactions associated with the receiving entity and the user. Inparticular embodiments, the receiver processor may create a new VBAN anda transaction resource configuration for the newly created VBAN. Inparticular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration may bedecoupled from an external resource account associated with the user andthe VBAN. The receiver processor may then determine whether one or moreparameters of the transaction resource configuration are satisfied basedon metadata associated with the transaction authorization request. Thereceiver processor may further transmit, to the external server,responsive to determining whether one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are satisfied, a transactionauthorization response indicating whether the transaction is authorized.In particular embodiments, the transaction being authorized may cause astored value balance associated with the external resource account to bereduced based on the transfer of resources associated with thetransaction.

Certain technical challenges exist for processing VBAN-based transactionauthorization requests. One technical challenge may include effectivelyverifying metadata associated with a transaction to a virtual bankaccount. Solutions presented by the embodiments disclosed herein toaddress this challenge may utilize machine-learning models trained basedon historical transaction data to verify metadata. The machine-learningmodels may be configured to characterize and evaluate whethertransactions should be authorized. Another technical challenge mayinclude effectively implementing risk/fraud controls. Solutionspresented by the embodiments disclosed herein to address this challengemay utilize a transaction risk model trained based on patternsidentified in metadata of previous fraudulent transactions, in which theidentified patterns may be correlated with high-risk usage or fraudulenttransactions or attempted transactions.

Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide one or more technicaladvantages. A technical advantage of the embodiments disclosed hereinmay include protecting sensitive financial information using VBANs basedon the concept of decoupling stored value balances from publiclyroutable account credentials. Another technical advantage of theembodiments may include the receiver processor implementing risk/fraudcontrols to shield users against fraud by using a transaction risk modelto identify fraudulent transactions that otherwise satisfy parameters ofa VBAN. Another technical advantage of the embodiments disclosed hereinmay include ensuring that each approved transaction conforms to specificparameters applicable to that transaction. The receiver processor mayverify transaction metadata by processing the metadata associated withthe transaction authorization request against parameters associated withthe VBAN. Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide none, some,or all of the above technical advantages. One or more other technicaladvantages may be readily apparent to one skilled in the art in view ofthe figures, descriptions, and claims of the present disclosure.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may prompt a userassociated with a transaction authorization request (e.g., a request fora payment transaction) to authorize the transaction authorizationrequest responsive to a verification failure of the transactionauthorization request. For example, the verification failure may bebased on one or more authorization parameters of a transaction resourceconfiguration for a VBAN. The verification failure may be determinedbased on an analysis of the metadata associated with the transactionauthorization request. Correspondingly, the receiver processor may senda real-time prompt (e.g., a text, a voice message, an automatic phonecall, an email, etc.) to the user to authorize the transactionauthorization request. In this way, the receiver processor may preventauthentic and legitimate transaction requests from being rejected, whilestill enabling users to benefit from the protections and efficienciesprovided by the VBANs. Although this disclosure describes providingparticular authorizations for particular verification failures in aparticular manner, this disclosure contemplates providing any suitableauthorizations for any suitable verification failures in any suitablemanner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may receive, from anexternal server, a transaction authorization request to authorize atransaction associated with a transfer of resources to a receivingentity from a user. The receiver processor may then retrieve, from anassociated database, a transaction resource configuration of a VBANassociated with the receiving entity and the user. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor may create a new VBAN and atransaction resource configuration for the newly created VBAN. Inparticular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration may bedecoupled from an external resource account associated with the user andthe VBAN. The receiver processor may determine that one or moreparameters of the transaction resource configuration are not satisfiedbased on metadata associated with the transaction authorization request.The receiver processor may further transmit, to a client deviceassociated with the user, instructions for presenting a notificationindicating a transaction authorization failure. In particularembodiments, the notification may comprise an interactive promptoperable for receiving an input indicating whether the transactionauthorization request should be authorized. The receiver processor maytransmit, to the external server, responsive to receiving the input fromthe client device associated with the user, a transaction authorizationresponse indicating whether the transaction is authorized. In particularembodiments, the transaction being authorized may cause a stored valuebalance associated with the external resource account to be reducedbased on the transfer of resources associated with the transaction.

Certain technical challenges exist for dynamic authorization forverification failures related to transactions with virtual bankaccounts. One technical challenge may include customizing theinteractive prompt for receiving a user's input indicating whether thetransaction authorization request should be authorized. Solutionspresented by the embodiments disclosed herein to address this challengemay include customizing the interactive prompt based on prior userinputs to prior dynamic authorization prompts, metadata associated withthe current transaction authorization request, and metadata associatedwith historical transactions, each of which may reflect the user'spreferences and the user's behavior patterns.

Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide one or more technicaladvantages. A technical advantage of the embodiments may includepreventing authentic and legitimate transaction requests from beingrejected while still enabling users to benefit from the protections andefficiencies provided by the VBANs. Certain embodiments disclosed hereinmay provide none, some, or all of the above technical advantages. One ormore other technical advantages may be readily apparent to one skilledin the art in view of the figures, descriptions, and claims of thepresent disclosure.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may enable users(e.g., enterprise clients associated with account processors) toconfigure customized transaction authorization schema within the systemof the receiver processor via an assisted code deployment schema. Usersmay deploy code snippets with desired parameters, which may then beintegrated and collocated within the working environment of the receiverprocessor for handling authorization stream access (ASA). By doing so,users may quickly launch authorization systems that utilize the ASAtransaction schema and backend infrastructure provided by the receiverprocessor to avoid undesirable latency experiences over public networks,ensure compliance with payment card industry (PCI) security standards,and eliminate the need to build out authorization schema from the groundup. In particular embodiments, users may have their customizedtransaction schema implemented without using their own servers. However,in particular embodiments, users may have the ability to utilize theirown servers for handling particular aspects of transactionauthorizations. Although this disclosure describes customizingparticular authorization schemas by particular processors in aparticular manner, this disclosure contemplates customizing any suitableauthorization schema by any suitable processor in any suitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may receive, from anexternal server associated with a payment processor, one or morecustomized schema parameters associated with a request for a customizedtransaction schema associated with the payment processor. The receiverprocessor may then retrieve, from a database associated with thereceiver processor platform, a pre-configured transaction schemacomprising a plurality of pre-configured schema parameters. The receiverprocessor may further generate the customized transaction schemaassociated with the payment processor by integrating the customizedschema parameters into the pre-configured transaction schema. Inparticular embodiments, the one or more servers associated with thereceiver processor platform may be configured to generate, based on thecustomized transaction schema, one or more transaction resourceconfigurations. Each transaction resource configuration may beconfigured for processing one or more transaction authorization requeststo authorize one or more respective transactions associated with atransfer of resources to a receiving entity from a user associated withthe payment processor. In particular embodiments, the receiver processormay store, in the database associated with the receiver processorplatform, the customized transaction schema associated with the paymentprocessor.

Certain technical challenges exist for serverless authorization streamaccess. One technical challenge may include enabling users toeffectively execute operations associated with the customizedtransaction schema and deploy more sophisticated authorization schema.Solutions presented by the embodiments disclosed herein to address thischallenge may include providing tools or libraries generated by thereceiver processor platform that can be easily accessed via the APIgenerated by, implemented by, and/or provided by a receiver processor asthese tools or libraries may be readily configured for variousoperations and functions.

Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide one or more technicaladvantages. A technical advantage of the embodiments may includeavoiding undesirable latency experiences over public networks andensuring compliance with payment card industry (PCI) security standardsby enabling users to utilize backend infrastructure provided by thereceiver processor for transaction authorizations. Another technicaladvantage of the embodiments may include eliminating the need to buildout authorization schema from the ground up by enabling users to utilizethe authorization stream access schema and backend infrastructureprovided by the receiver processor to deploy customized transactionschema. Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide none, some, orall of the above technical advantages. One or more other technicaladvantages may be readily apparent to one skilled in the art in view ofthe figures, descriptions, and claims of the present disclosure.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may reconcile datafrom multiple sources. A primary source may be live data (e.g.,real-time transaction data) being streamed in real-time, and a secondarysource may be historical data (e.g., historical transaction data)aggregated and presented in bulk at a future time. In particularembodiments, the secondary source may serve as a form of ground-truth,taking precedence over the primary source in cases of poor congruenceand incompleteness. In particular embodiments, the secondary source maynot be sufficient to be solely relied upon when conducting business(e.g., processing transactions), particularly for decisions which mayneed to be made using real-time data (e.g., the primary source) that isimmediately available. In particular embodiments, when the two datasources are incomplete and/or have poor congruence, reconciliation maybe utilized to identify any improper, incomplete, or missing entries ineither of the two data sources, and may remediate one or more of theidentified entries. In particular embodiments, the receiver processormay determine incongruent data entries across the two sources, which maybe, for example, business decisions that result from an originallyimproper entry from the primary source, and determine remediations thatare necessary as a result of a final proper entry from the secondarysource. The receiver processor may further substantiate the originalentry from the primary source with more complete information that may beonly available via the secondary source. In particular embodiments, thereconciliation logic to identify and remediate entries may requireparticular accuracy and/or efficiency for its utility to be realized.For example, incorrect reconciliation may potentially result in falsepositive remediations and downstream repercussions. As a result, thereceiver processor may implement robust reconciliation logic forreconciling data from multiple sources. Although this disclosuredescribes reconciling particular data sources by particular processorsin a particular manner, this disclosure contemplates reconciling anysuitable data source by any suitable processor in any suitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may store, in apayment transaction database associated with the receiver processor, aset of first transaction entries comprising real-time transaction data.Each first transaction entry may be associated with one of a pluralityof privacy payment transactions for a specified time period. Eachprivacy payment transaction may be associated with a transfer of fundsto a receiving entity, via a privacy payment account of a user, from afunding account of the user that is decoupled from the privacy paymentaccount. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor may thenreceive, from an external server, one or more network reporting filescomprising historical transaction data associated with one or more ofthe plurality of privacy payment transactions for the specified timeperiod. The receiver processor may identify, from the set of firsttransaction entries and a set of second transaction entries derived fromthe historical transaction data, one or more identical pairs of a firsttransaction entry and a second transaction entry. In particularembodiments, for each identical pair, the first transaction entry andsecond transaction entry may be excluded from a remaining set of firsttransaction entries and a remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. The receiver processor may then identify, for each of oneor more matching cycles, from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries, one or morematching pairs of a first transaction entry and a second transactionentry. In particular embodiments, each matching pair may be identifiedbased on a determination that a confidence metric for the matching pairis greater than a confidence threshold associated with the matchingcycle. For each matching pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction entry may be excluded from the remaining set of firsttransaction entries and the remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor mayfurther analyze, subsequent to the one or more matching cycles, theremaining set of first transaction entries and the remaining set ofsecond transaction entries to identify a set of incongruous transactionentries and determine one or more remediations for one or more of theincongruous transaction entries.

Certain technical challenges exist for reconciling financial records.One technical challenge may include identifying matching pairs betweenthe real-time transaction data and the historical transaction data.Solutions presented by the embodiments disclosed herein to address thischallenge may include identifying, for each of one or more privacypayment transactions, a matching pair based on transaction criteriaassociated with one or more of the privacy payment transaction, theuser, the receiving entity, the privacy payment account, or atransaction network associated with the external server such that thetransaction criteria provide a reliable measurement for evaluating thecorrespondence between the entries of the matching pair.

Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide one or more technicaladvantages. A technical advantage of the embodiments may includeutilizing the reconciliation logic to effectively identify and remediateimproper, incomplete, or missing entries in either of the data sourcescorresponding to the real-time transaction data and historicaltransaction data. Certain embodiments disclosed herein may provide none,some, or all of the above technical advantages. One or more othertechnical advantages may be readily apparent to one skilled in the artin view of the figures, descriptions, and claims of the presentdisclosure.

The embodiments disclosed herein are only examples, and the scope ofthis disclosure is not limited to them. Particular embodiments mayinclude all, some, or none of the components, elements, features,functions, operations, or steps of the embodiments disclosed herein.Embodiments according to the invention are in particular disclosed inthe attached claims directed to a method, a storage medium, a system anda computer program product, wherein any feature mentioned in one claimcategory, e.g. method, can be claimed in another claim category, e.g.system, as well. The dependencies or references back in the attachedclaims are chosen for formal reasons only. However, any subject matterresulting from a deliberate reference back to any previous claims (inparticular multiple dependencies) can be claimed as well, so that anycombination of claims and the features thereof are disclosed and can beclaimed regardless of the dependencies chosen in the attached claims.The subject-matter which can be claimed comprises not only thecombinations of features as set out in the attached claims but also anyother combination of features in the claims, wherein each featurementioned in the claims can be combined with any other feature orcombination of other features in the claims. Furthermore, any of theembodiments and features described or depicted herein can be claimed ina separate claim and/or in any combination with any embodiment orfeature described or depicted herein or with any of the features of theattached claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates an example payment system.

FIG. 2 illustrates an example flow diagram for account initiation andvalidation.

FIG. 3 illustrates an example flow diagram for card initiation andvalidation.

FIG. 4 illustrates an example flow diagram for enabling a transaction bythe receiver processor.

FIG. 5 illustrates an example decoupling of routable account credentialsfrom a stored value balance.

FIG. 6 illustrates an example flow diagram of processing a transactionauthorization request on a VBAN.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example method for processing VBAN-basedtransaction authorization requests.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example transaction notification.

FIG. 9 illustrates an example method for dynamic authorization forvirtual bank account verification failures.

FIG. 10 illustrates an example sequence diagram for processingtransaction authorization requests using customized transaction schema.

FIG. 11 illustrates an example method for serverless authorizationstream access.

FIGS. 12A-12B illustrate an example workflow for reconciling partiallycomplete and congruent financial records.

FIG. 13 illustrates an example flow diagram for reconciling partiallycomplete and congruent financial records.

FIG. 14 illustrates an example method for reconciling financial records.

FIG. 15 illustrates an example computer system.

DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS System Overview

FIG. 1 illustrates an example payment system 100. The payment system 100includes an account holder 105 (e.g., a payer), a commerce entity 115(e.g., a merchant), an account processor 120, an originator processor125, an originator institution 130 (e.g., a financial institution suchas an acquiring bank), a receiver processor 140, and a receiverinstitution 145 (e.g., a financial institution such as an issuing bank),which may be interconnected to another through various networks,including communication networks 110 (e.g., the Internet and/or thelike) and a payment network 135 (e.g., credit network, debit network,ATM network, and/or the like). Although FIG. 1 illustrates a particulararrangement of an account holder 105, communication networks 110, acommerce entity 115, an account processor 120, an originator processor125, an originator institution 130, a payment network 135, a receiverprocessor 140, and a receiver institution 145, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable arrangement of an account holder 105,communication networks 110, a commerce entity 115, an account processor120, an originator processor 125, an originator institution 130, apayment network 135, a receiver processor 140, and a receiverinstitution 145. As an example and not by way of limitation, two or moreof an account holder 105, a commerce entity 115, and an accountprocessor 120 may be connected to or communicate with each otherdirectly, bypassing the communication network 110. As another example,two or more of an account processor 120 and a receiver processor 140 maybe physically or logically co-located with each other in whole or inpart. As yet another example, two or more of a receiver processor 140and a receiver institution 145 may be physically or logically co-locatedwith each other in whole or in part. As yet another example, two or moreof an originator institution 130 and a receiver institution 145 may bephysically or logically co-located with each other in whole or in part.As yet another example, two or more of an originator processor 125 andan originator institution 130 may be physically or logically co-locatedwith each other in whole or in part. As yet another example, two or moreof a payment network 135 and a receiver institution 145 may bephysically or logically co-located with each other in whole or in part.Moreover, although FIG. 1 illustrates a particular number of an accountholder 105, communication networks 110, a commerce entity 115, anaccount processor 120, an originator processor 125, an originatorinstitution 130, a payment network 135, a receiver processor 140, and areceiver institution 145, this disclosure contemplates any suitablenumber of an account holder 105, communication networks 110, a commerceentity 115, an account processor 120, an originator processor 125, anoriginator institution 130, a payment network 135, a receiver processor140, and a receiver institution 145. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the payment system 100 may include multiple account holders105, commerce entities 115, account processors 120, originatorprocessors 125, originator institutions 130, payment networks 135,receiver processors 140, and receiver institutions 145.

This disclosure contemplates any suitable communication network 110 orpayment network 135. As an example and not by way of limitation, one ormore portions of a communication network 110 or payment network 135 mayinclude an ad hoc network, an intranet, an extranet, a virtual privatenetwork (VPN), a local area network (LAN), a wireless LAN (WLAN), a widearea network (WAN), a wireless WAN (WWAN), a metropolitan area network(MAN), a portion of the Internet, a portion of the Public SwitchedTelephone Network (PSTN), a cellular telephone network, or a combinationof two or more of these. A communication network 110 may include one ormore communication networks 110 and a payment network 135 may includeone or more payment networks 135.

In particular embodiments, an account holder 105 may initialize apayment to a commerce entity 115 at the commerce entity's 115 locationfor purchasing merchandise or services from the commerce entity 115. Thepayment may be an electronic payment with or without a card 105 a. Theaccount holder 105 may use a device 105 b (e.g., personal computingdevice such as a smartphone) for such payment. As an example and not byway of limitation, the account holder 105 may use the account holder'sdevice 105 b to initialize the payment via a digital payment platformwithout having a card 105 a. The payment may also be a card paymentusing a card 105 a. In particular embodiments, the card 105 a may beeither a credit card or a debit card for the payment. The card 105 a maybe issued by the receiver processor 140 or the receiver institution 145.As an example and not by way of limitation, the card 105 a may be aphysical piece of plastic with a magnetic stripe at the top and/or achip. As another example, the card 105 a may be tokenized so that it isa card stored in a smartphone's digital wallet and then used to tap andpay. In alternative embodiments, the account holder 105 may initializethe payment via the communication network 110 a, which may be part of anonline transaction. The account holder 105 may use the account holder'sdevice 105 b for the online transaction. In particular embodiments, thedevice 105 b may be any computing device comprising networking interfacecircuitry, such as a network interface card (NIC) or similar component,and a processor capable of accessing data over the communication network110 a. Non-limiting examples of the device 105 b may include aworkstation computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a notebookcomputer, a netbook, a tablet, a smartphone, a server, a personaldigital assistant (PDA), a handheld electronic device, a cellulartelephone, a smartphone, a virtual reality (VR) headset, an augmentedreality (AR) smart glasses, other suitable electronic device, or anysuitable combination thereof.

In particular embodiments, the commerce entity 115 may comprise a server115 a and a payment machine 115 b, and optionally account holderprofiles 115 c. The payment machine 115 b may read the card that is usedfor payment. As an example and not by way of limitation, the paymentmachine 115 b may be a card reader, a card terminal, a payment terminal,or a point-of-sale (POS) terminal. In particular embodiments, theaccount holder 105 may use the card 105 a to interact with the paymentmachine 115 b, e.g., by swiping the card 105 a through the paymentmachine 115 b, inserting the card 105 a into the payment machine 115 b,tapping the card 105 a on the payment machine 115 b, or tapping thepayment machine 115 b with a smartphone having a virtual card in itsdigital wallet. For online transactions, the payment machine 115 b maybe considered as a payment gateway, which may be not a physical machinebut rather handled via software. For online transactions, the card 105 aused for payment may be a virtual card that is just the card numbershown in a software application.

In particular embodiments, the originator institution 130 may providethe payment machine 115 b to the commerce entity 115. The originatorinstitution 130 may go out and acquire commerce entities 115 and providethem the tools and facilities to accept and process card-based payments.The originator institution 130 may comprise a server 130 a and commerceentity profiles 130 b. The originator institution 130 may utilize atechnology provider, e.g., the originator processor 125, that canconnect with the payment network 135 to handle transactions from variouschannels such as credit cards and debit cards for the originatorinstitution 130. In particular embodiments, the originator processor 125may process the transactions from the commerce entity 115, through theoriginator institution 130 and then the payment network 135 (or analternative payment method such as a digital payment platform) to ensurethe receiver institution 145 that the commerce entity's 115 transactionswith the accountholder 105 are authorized and may be settled. Inparticular embodiments, the originator processor 125 may utilizehardware (e.g., network interface components at a data center) and afast direct network connection to the payment network 135 to requestapproval of a payment. In particular embodiments, the originatorinstitution 130 may build this technology in-house (e.g., via its server130 a) or may rely on a third-party originator processor 125 to handlethis functionality.

In particular embodiments, one or more of the account holder 105, theaccount holder's card 105 a, or the account holder's device 105 b may beassociated with a corporation (e.g., a company) that is an enterpriseclient or partner of the receiver institution 145 and/or the receiverprocessor 140. As an example and not by way of limitation, the accountholder 105 may be an employee of the corporation. As another example andnot by way of limitation, the account holder 105 may be a contractor ofthe corporation. The corporation may be associated with the accountprocessor 120. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 maycomprise account holder profiles 120 b. The account processor 120 mayoptionally comprise an account processor server 120 a. In particularembodiments, the account holder 105 may use the account holder's device105 b to communicate with the account processor 120. As an example andnot by way of limitation, the account holder 105 may send a request foraccount generation, card generation, funding, payment approval, etc. tothe account processor 120. As another example and not by way oflimitation, the account holder 105 may notify the account processor 120of a potential payment. As yet another example and not by way oflimitation, the account processor 120 or the account holder's device 105b may detect that the account holder 105 is physically at the commerceentity's 115 location (e.g., based on GPS signal from the personalcomputing device associated with the account holder 105), and upon suchdetection, the account processor 120 may initialize account/cardgeneration or transaction verification.

In particular embodiments, the card 105 a used for payment may be issuedby the receiver institution 145. The receiver institution's 145 functionmay be to underwrite an individual person (e.g., the account holder 105)or an enterprise client or partner (e.g., a corporation) by providingthem with a bank account, a debit card, and may optionally grant themaccess to credit facilities and a credit card. In particularembodiments, the receiver institution 145 may utilize a technologyprovider (i.e., the receiver processor 140) to connect with the paymentnetwork 135. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 mayutilize hardware (e.g., network interface components at a data center)and a fast direct network connection to the payment network 135 toapprove or decline a payment. The receiver institution 145 may buildthis technology in-house (e.g., by providing APIs that can be called bythe account processor 120 or payment network 135) or may rely on athird-party receiver processor 140 to handle this functionality.

In particular embodiments, the receiver institution 145 may comprise aserver 145 a that may accept requests for account/card creation from thereceiver processor 140, and then generate the card/account according tothe information provided from the receiver processor server 140 b. Itshould be noted that, in some embodiments, the receiver institution 145may issue what appears to be a full-service credit card or debit card,with no limitations on its use. Functionally, the limitations on use ofthe new card may be imposed by operation of the receiver processor 140.That is, when the receiver institution server 145 a receives, from thepayment network 135, a request to verify a transaction, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may query the receiver processor server 140 b;and the receiver processor 140 may verify only those transactions wherethe commerce-entity tag associated with the card/account in the receiverprocessor account profiles 140 c (e.g., including payer and/or clientprofiles) matches the commerce entity 115 identified in the currenttransaction data. The receiver processor 140 may optionally checkparameters associated with the card/account and/or compare other dataassociated with the transaction, as discussed in greater detail herein.In particular embodiments, the receiver institution 145 may alsocomprise account profiles 145 b. In particular embodiments, the receiverinstitution 145 may be a distinct entity from the receiver processor140. In alternative embodiments, the receiver processor 140functionality may be implemented by the receiver institution 145. Inalternative embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may be registered tooperate as a receiver institution 145. In alternative embodiments, thereceiver processor 140 may maintain a contractual relationship with afinancial institution, whereby the receiver processor 140 may functionin some respects as a receiver institution 145.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may comprise anapplication programming interface (API) 140 a, a server 140 b, accountprofiles 140 c (e.g., including payer and/or client profiles), andoptionally authentication logic 140 d. The account profiles 140 c maycomprise profiles of individual and enterprise clients. The API 140 amay provide a programmatic interface to create and configureaccounts/cards. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 maycall the API 140 a to request the receiver processor 140 to providevarious account/card/transaction services and the receiver processor 140may return the relevant results to the account processor 120 via the API140 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, the account processor120 may get real-time payment data, programmatically request issuance ofnew cards, configure card permissions, and set spending limits throughAPI 140 a. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 mayverify requests from the account processor 120 via the API 140 a. Therequests may be verified with an API key (e.g., cryptographicpublic/private keys). The receiver processor 140 may return errors viathe API 140 a, which may be used by the account processor 120 todiagnose failed transactions and improve its exception-handlingcapabilities. As an example and not by way of limitation, an errorreturned via API 140 a may be that [query] is not a valid parameter,indicating that a query parameter in the request does not match thevalid queries for the endpoint. As another example, an error returnedvia API 140 a may be that an account holder 105 has not beenauthenticated, indicating an invalid or missing API key. As yet anotherexample, an error returned via API 140 a may be that the API key is notactive, indicating that the API key used is no longer active. As yetanother example, an error returned via API 140 a may be that thereceiver processor 140 could not identify the API key, indicating theAPI key provided is not associated with any account processor 120. Asyet another example, an error returned via API 140 a may be requiring anAPI key in authorization header, indicating the authorization header isnot in the request. As yet another example, an error returned via API140 a may be that authorization header is not formatted properly. As yetanother example, an error returned via API 140 a may be insufficientprivileges or issuing API key required, indicating write access requiresan issuing API key. As yet another example, an error returned via API140 a may be insufficient privileges to create unlocked cards,indicating creating unlocked cards requires an additional privilege. Asyet another example, an error returned via API 140 a may beauthorization failed (in simulation), indicating an authorization failswhen simulating an authorization. As yet another example, an errorreturned via API 140 a may be rate limited with too many requests persecond, indicating an account processor 120 has exceeded their persecond rate limit. As yet another example, an error returned via API 140a may be rate limited with daily limit reached, indicating an accountprocessor 120 has exceeded their daily rate limit. As yet anotherexample, an error returned via API 140 a may be rate limited with toomany keys tried, indicating one IP has queried too many different APIkeys. As yet another example, an error returned via API 140 a may be aninternal server error, indicating there was a processing error on theserver-side.

In particular embodiments, a single API key may manage a portfolio ofend-users (i.e., accounts), each with its own funding sources, cards,and transactions. End-users may be onboarded through the enrollmentendpoint, which runs the candidate enrollment through a customeridentification program and returns an account token if successful. Afterthe first end-user is enrolled in the production environment, allsubsequent API calls should include a uniform resource identifier (URI)parameter indicating which end-user this API request is on behalf of.The reason for this behavior change is because, upon initialprovisioning, the API key may map one-to-one to a root accountspecifically associated with the account processor 120. After requestingenrollment, the API key mapping may become one-to-many, so the API 140 amay require an account-token parameter and/or a URI parameter toindicate which individual account, within the portfolio of accounts, toperform an action on behalf of. If one or more end-users have beenenrolled and no account-token argument is supplied, the API 140 a mayassume the root account.

In particular embodiments, different parties (e.g., a financialinstitution such as a bank, an account holder 105, the receiverprocessor 140, etc.) may set rules on accounts created by the receiverprocessor 140 via the API 140 a. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the receiver institution 145 may set account specifictransaction limits. As another example and not by way of limitation, apayer, as an account holder 105, may set up parental controls if a minorof the account holder 105 also has access to the account. As yet anotherexample and not by way of limitation, the originator processor 125 ororiginator institution 130 may set rules to protect the commerce entity115.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may set rules onaccounts to control spending via the API 140 a. The accountconfiguration schema may comprise the account token, the account state,and one or more parameters for the account (e.g., a spendinglimit/frequency). The account token may be a globally unique identifierfor the account. The account states may include an active, paused,closed, locked, restricted, banned/suspended, and/or flagged state.Spending limit parameters for an account may comprise limitations on anindividual transaction or a plurality of transactions. As an example andnot by way of limitation, a single transaction may be limited to amaximum permitted payment value. As another example and not by way oflimitation, a set of multiple transactions may be limited based on thevolume or frequency of transactions (e.g., maximum number oftransactions within a day or week). As yet another example, a set ofmultiple transactions may be limited based on combined transactionvalues (e.g., maximum total spending permitted daily, monthly, and/orover the lifetime of the account). Any charges to a card associated withthis account may be declined (or alternatively paused/held or flaggedfor additional authorization) once their transaction volume and/or totalvalue has surpassed the limit in the applicable time period, which maybe on a rolling basis. A lifetime spending limit value of 0 or null inthe account configuration may indicate that the lifetime spending limitfeature is disabled such that there is no lifetime spending limit forthat account. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 mayaccess account spending limits for one or more specified accounts viathe API 140 a. This endpoint may only be used on individual accountswithin the portfolio of accounts associated with the root account thatthe calling API key manages. If an account token is specified, thisendpoint may return an account-configuration object representing theaccount specified. If an account token is not specified, a list ofaccount-configurations (e.g., account state and account parameters) forthe individual accounts in the portfolio of accounts associated with theroot account may be returned. If querying for a single account, theaccount processor 120 may not include pagination queries as there isonly one account. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120may set spending limits for a specified account (e.g., a root account),which may be applied to the accounts in the portfolio of accountsassociated with the specified account that are managed by this API key.As an example and not by way of limitation, the account processor 120may set a new amount for an account's daily spending limit, monthlyspending limit, and lifetime spending limit. When one of these limits isreached, no transactions may be accepted on any card created for thisaccount for the corresponding period unless the spending limit isupdated. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may setthe account state for a specified account via the API 140 a, which maybe applied to the accounts in the portfolio of accounts associated withthe specified account that are managed by this API key. Accounts thatare set as being in the paused account state may not be able to transactor create new cards.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may enrollend-users (e.g., account holder 105) via the API 140 a. The accountprocessor 120 may enroll a new individual account into the root accountmanaged by the API key. This endpoint may run the candidate enrollmentthrough the customer identification program (CIP) and return an accounttoken if successful. As an example and not by way of limitation, therequest for enrollment may comprise one or more of date of birth (as anISO 8601 date), email (if utilizing the receiver processor 140 forchargeback processing, this email address may be used to communicatedispute status and resolution), account holder's 105 first name, an ISO8601 timestamp at which precomputed KYC (know-your-customer) wascompleted, a KYC-type specifying the KYC workflow to run on the accountholder 105 for which the individual account is being created, accountholder's 105 last name, account holder's 105 phone number which mayimprove the chances of a positive identity match and successful APIresponse, social security number which may be required for identityverification and compliance with US banking regulations, valid address,an ISO 8601 timestamp at which the terms of service of the receiverprocessor 140 were accepted by account holder 105, or postal code. Whena KYC evaluation fails, one or more of the failure reasons in Table 1(below) may be returned in the API response.

TABLE 1 Example failure reasons for KYC evaluations.ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_FAILURE The address provided could not be matched.AGE_THRESHOLD_FAILURE The user did not fall within an acceptable agerange. BANKRUPTCY_RELATED_FAILURE The user has a bankruptcy on record.BLOCKLIST_ALERT_FAILURE The user appeared on one or more blocklists.COMPLETE_VERIFICATION_FAILURE The user could not be matched to a personin any data source. DATA_STRENGTH_FAILURE The user’s public record hasinsufficient information that can be used for verification.DOB_VERIFICATION_FAILURE The date of birth provided could not bematched. EMAIL_VERIFICATION_FAILURE The email provided is not valid oris improperly formatted. MULTIPLE_RECORDS_FAILURE The user has severalvalid records with conflicting information. NAME_VERIFICATION_FAILUREThe name provided could not be matched. PHONE_VERIFICATION_FAILURE Thephone number provided could not be matched. RISK_THRESHOLD_FAILURE Theuser was flagged for high risk of fraud. SSN_VERIFICATION_FAILURE Thesocial security number provided could not be matched.OTHER_VERIFICATION_FAILURE The user was rejected for a reason other thanone specified above.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may use KYC toonboard and verify its customers. Building out KYC for productsassociated with the account processor 120 may be a substantial buildthat include third-party vendor selection and contract negotiation. Inparticular embodiments, through the API 140 a, the account processor 120may perform basic KYC, advanced KYC, and bring your own (BYO) KYC. BasicKYC may include identity verification for an individual, with a simpleaccepted or rejected decision. An example workflow for basic KYC may beas follows. The account processor 120 may submit, via the API 140 a,required information identifying account holder 105, for which thereceiver processor 140 may return, via the API 140 a, an accepted orrejected status for the account holder 105. Advanced KYC may includeidentity verification for an individual, with a remediation path if theinitially submitted information was not successfully verified (not allcases may be eligible). An example workflow for advanced KYC may be asfollows. The account processor 120 may submit, via the API 140 a,required information identifying account holder 105, for which thereceiver processor 140 may return, via the API 140 a, an accepted,rejected, pending resubmit, or pending document status for the accountholder 105. If the status is pending resubmit, the account processor 120may submit, via the API 140 a, revised information, for which thereceiver processor 140 may return, via the API 140 a, an accepted,rejected, pending resubmit, or pending document status. If the status is“pending document”, the account processor 120 may identify document typeto be submitted, for which the receiver processor 140 may return URLs towhich documents may be submitted. Once the account processor 120 submitsdocuments with provided URLs, the API 140 a may send a webhook to theaccount processor 120 once accepted or rejected status is available. BYOKYC may include an account creation process where the account processor120 may bypass KYC enabled by the receiver processor 140 via the API 140a. The following is an example workflow for BYO KYC. The accountprocessor 120 may submit, via the API 140 a, required information withits own KYC workflow identifying account holder 105, for which thereceiver processor 140 may return, via the API 140 a, an accepted statusfor the account holder 105.

In particular embodiments, besides KYC, the account processor 120 mayuse know your business (KYB) to get to market faster by reducing thenumber of partners needed to launch a card program. The accountprocessor 120 may perform basic KYB and BYO KYB. In particularembodiments, basic KYB may include identity verification for a business,with a simple accepted or rejected decision. An example workflow forbasic KYB may be as follows. The account processor 120 may submit, viathe API 140 a, required information identifying account holder 105, forwhich the receiver processor 140 may return, via the API 140 a, apending status for the account. The API 140 a may then send a webhook tothe account processor 120 once accepted or rejected status is available.In particular embodiments, BYO KYB may include an account creationprocess where the account processor 120 may bypass KYB enabled by thereceiver processor 140 via the API 140 a. The following is an exampleworkflow for BYO KYB. The account processor 120 may submit, via the API140 a, required information with its own KYB workflow identifyingaccount holder 105, for which the receiver processor 140 may return, viathe API 140 a, an accepted status for the account holder 105.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may create, update,manage, and reissue cards (both virtual cards and physical cards) viathe API 140 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, the cardschema may comprise one or more of an ISO 8601 timestamp for when thecard was created, three digit card verification value (CVV) printed onthe back of the card, funding, expiry month and year, hostname of card'slocked merchant (empty if not applicable), last four digits of the cardnumber, nickname to identify the card, card number, spending limit(transaction requests above the spend limit may be declined), spendinglimit duration (e.g., transaction, monthly, annually, forever), state(e.g., open, paused, closed, pending fulfillment, pending activation),token (i.e., globally unique identifier), or type (single use, merchantlocked, unlocked, physical). All physical cards may have digital walletfunctionality and may be unlocked. Tables 2-4 (below) provide examplecard types, states, and spending limit durations.

TABLE 2 Example card types. SINGLE_USE Card may close shortly after thefirst transaction. MERCHANT_ Card may be locked to first merchant thatsuccessfully LOCKED authorizes the card. UNLOCKED Card may authorize atany merchant. (Issuing) Creating these cards may require additionalprivileges. PHYSICAL Manufactured and sent to the cardholder.(Enterprise) The issuer processor may offer white label branding,credit, ATM, PIN debit, chip/EMV, NFC and magstripe functionality.DIGITAL_ Cards that may be provisioned to a digital wallet. WALLET(Enterprise)

TABLE 3 Example card states. OPEN Card may approve authorizations (ifthey match card and account parameters). PAUSED Card may declineauthorizations but may be resumed at a later time. CLOSED Card may nolonger approve authorizations. Closing a card may not be undone.PENDING_FULFILLMENT The initial state for cards of type PHYSICAL. Thecard may be provisioned pending manufacturing and fulfillment. Cards inthis state may accept authorizations for e-commerce purchases, but notfor “Card Present” purchases where the physical card itself is present.PENDING_ACTIVATION Each day at a certain time, cards of type PHYSICAL instate PENDING_FULFILLMENT may be sent to the card production warehouseand updated to state PENDING_ACTIVATION. Similar to PENDING_FULFILLMENT,cards in this state may be used for e-commerce transactions. API clientsmay update the card’s state to OPEN after the cardholder confirmsreceipt of the card.

TABLE 4 Example card spending limit durations. TRANSACTION Card mayauthorize multiple transactions if each individual transaction is underthe spending limit. MONTHLY Card may authorize transactions up to aspending limit for the trailing month. (Note month may be calculated asthis calendar date one month prior). ANNUALLY Card may authorizetransactions up to a spending limit in a calendar year. FOREVER Card mayauthorize up to a spending limit for the entire lifetime of the card.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may embed card PANs(primary account numbers) and CVV codes via the API 140 a. Handling cardPANs and CVV codes may require compliance with the payment card industrydata security standards (PCI DSS). An enterprise client may choose toreduce their compliance obligations by using an embedded card UI (userinterface) solution provided by the receiver processor 140. In thissetup, PANs and CVV codes may be presented to the end-user (e.g.,account holder 105) via a card UI that the receiver processor 140provides, optionally styled in the enterprise client's branding using aspecified CSS stylesheet. The request for the embedded card UI may bemade directly to the receiver processor 140 (e.g., via a browser) suchthat the card PANs and CVVs are not transmitted or exposed to theaccount processor servers 120 a, but are still displayed and visible tothe end-users. The API response may comprise an HTML document, and theURL for the request may be inserted directly into the source attribute(SRC) of an inline frame (iframe) element. In particular embodiments,the account processor 120 may compute the request payload server-side ataccount processor server 120 a. The account processor 120 may render therequest payload (or the whole iframe) on the server 120 a, or may makean AJAX call from the front-end code. The request for the embedded cardUI may comprise an embed request to specify which card to load and ahash-based message authentication code (HMAC). In particularembodiments, the embed request schema (for issuing) may comprise one ormore of a token, a publicly available URI, an account token, or anexpiration time/date. The token may be a globally unique identifier forthe card to be displayed. With the publicly available URI, thewhite-labeled card element can be styled with the enterprise client'sbranding, The account token may be included if one or more end-users(e.g., account holder 105) have been enrolled. The expiration may be anISO 8601 timestamp for when the request should expire. In particularembodiments, the endpoint may return an HTML document. The accountprocessor 120 may be responsible for providing CSS styles for theelements in the embed request. The account processor 120 may provide itsown CSS URL in the request to style a card.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may enable itscardholders (e.g., account holders 105) to directly add payment cards totheir devices' 105 b digital wallets with one touch. This may requiresome additional setup and configuration. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the account processor 120 may specify one or more of aunique token for the card being added to the device's 105 b digitalwallet, the type of digital wallet, an account token (for multi-accountusers) identifying the account associated with the card, and optionallyprovided by the device's 105 b wallet, a nonce, a nonce signature,and/or a certificate. The receiver processor 140 may return aprovisioning payload, which may be a cryptographic payload representinga payment card 105 a that can be passed to a device's 105 b digitalwallet. In particular embodiments, each digital wallet may utilize adifferent API 140 a.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may make fundsavailable to its cards 105 a via the API 140 a. As an example and not byway of limitation, the funding account schema may comprise an accountname identifying the funding source, an ISO 8601 string representing thetime when the funding source was added, the last 4 digits of a fundingaccount (e.g., bank account and debit card) associated with the fundingsource, a nickname given to the funding account (or null if it has nonickname), a state of the funding account (e.g., “enabled” (indicatingthe funding account is available to use for card creation andtransactions), “pending” (indicating the funding account is still beingverified)), a token (globally unique identifier) for the fundingaccount, and/or the type of funding source (e.g., checking account,savings account, credit card account, cryptocurrency account). Inparticular embodiments, the account processor 120 may add a bank accountas a funding source using routing and account numbers via the API 140 a.As an example and not by way of limitation, the account processor 120may specify in the request for adding a bank account one or more of therouting number of the bank account, the account number of the bankaccount, the account name, or the account token (for multi-accountusers) identifying the account that the bank account may be associatedwith. The receiver processor 140 may return a funding-account objectcomprising the bank information. In particular embodiments, fundingaccounts may be initially set to the pending state until a micro-depositvalidation is completed, while in other embodiments, funding accountsmay be set to the enabled state automatically (e.g., trusted fundingsources; testing environments).

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may validate a bankaccount as a funding source by providing received micro-deposit amounts.As an example and not by way of limitation, the account processor 120may specify in the validation request one or more of the token of thebank account to validate, an array of monetary amounts received in twocredit transactions, or the account token (for multi-account users)identifying the account that the bank is associated with. In particularembodiments, the account processor 120 may update a bank account fundingsource using the given parameter (e.g., the token of the bank account)via the API 140 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, theaccount processor 120 may specify in the updating request one or more ofthe token of the bank account to edit, the desired state of the bankaccount (e.g., enabled and deleted), or the account token (formulti-account users) identifying the account that the bank is associatedwith. If a bank account is set to be deleted, all cards linked to thisaccount may no longer be associated with it. If there are no otherfunding accounts set to an enabled state on the account, authorizationsmay not be accepted on any cards linked to the account until a newfunding account is added. In particular embodiments, the accountprocessor 120 may list and display all the funding accounts via the API140 a.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may create avirtual or physical card via the API 140 a. As an example and not by wayof limitation, the account processor 120 may specify one or more of memowhich is a nickname to identify the card, a card type (e.g., single use,merchant locked, digital wallet, unlocked, and physical), a token forthe desired funding account to use when making transactions with thecard, a spending limit, a spending limit duration (e.g., transaction,monthly, annually, forever), a card state (e.g., open, paused), a cardprogram token which may identify the card program under which to createthe card (different card programs may have their own configurations,e.g., digital wallet card art, BIN type), an expiration month and year(either may be generated if not provided), an account token (e.g., formulti-account users), an account token identifying the account the cardmay be associated with, a PIN, a product identifier which may specify amanufacturing and design configuration (e.g., physical card art) for thecard, or a shipping address.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may updatespecified properties of the card via the API 140 a. Unsuppliedproperties may remain unchanged. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the account processor 120 may specify updates for one ormore of a unique card token, a card state (e.g., open, paused, andclosed), a token for a desired funding account, memo which is a friendlyname to identify the card, a spending limit, a spending limit duration(e.g., transaction, monthly, annually, forever), an account token (formulti-account users) identifying the account which owns the card, or aPIN.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may list cards viathe API 140 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, the accountprocessor 120 may specify one or more of page for pagination, page size,begin date (cards created after the specified date may be included), enddate (cards created before the specified date may be included), cardtoken for returning a specific card, or account token (for multi-accountusers) for returning cards associated with this account. Physical cardsmay be provisioned for ATM/PIN debit access which may require acardholder PIN. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 mayset and update the cardholder PIN via the API 140 a. The API 140 a mayadditionally enable setting a cryptographic nonce to create additionalentropy and prevent replay attacks, which may be unique per request. Inparticular embodiments, the account processor 120 may reissue cards,i.e., initiating print and shipment of a duplicate card via the API 140a. As an example and not by way of limitation, the account processor 120may specify one or more of card token which is the unique token of thecard to update, shipping address, or product identifier which specifiesthe configuration (e.g., physical card art) that the card should bemanufactured with.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may learn moreabout transactions via the API 140 a. As an example and not by way oflimitation, a transaction schema may comprise one or more of theauthorization amount of the transaction with a positive amountrepresenting a debit and a negative amount representing a credit, whichmay change over time, the card schema, date and time when thetransaction first occurred, a list of all events that have modified thistransaction, a list of objects that describe how this transaction wasfunded, where a reference to the funding account for the card that madethis transaction may appear here and the token may match the token forthe funding account in the card field (if any promotional credit wasused in paying for this transaction, its type may be promotion), themerchant schema, the transaction result with approved or decline reason,the amount of the transaction that has been settled, which may changeover time, status (e.g., pending, voided, settling, settled, bounced,declined), or the token which is a globally unique identifier. Table 5(below) enumerates example transaction status. Table 6 (below)enumerates example transaction results. In particular embodiments, asingle card transaction may include multiple events that affect thetransaction state and lifecycle. An event schema may comprise one ormore of the amount of the transaction event, date and time this evententered the system, the result of approved or decline reason, the tokenwhich is a globally unique identifier, or the type (e.g., authorization,authorization advice, clearing, void, return). The amount of thetransaction event may be always a positive value, unlike the transactionamount in the transaction schema. Whether the amount is a debit orcredit may depend on the event type: authorization, authorizationadvice, and clearing may be debits whereas void and return may becredits. In particular embodiments, the merchant schema may comprise oneor more of an identifier for the payment card acceptor, a city of thecard acceptor, a country of the card acceptor, a short description ofthe card acceptor, a merchant category code, or a geographic state ofthe card acceptor. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120may list the transactions via the API 140 a. As an example and not byway of limitation, the account processor 120 may specify in the requestone or more of approval status, page for pagination, page size forpagination, begin date (transactions created after the specified datemay be included), end date (transactions created before the specifieddate may be included), card token which may filter transactionsassociated with a specific card, transaction token which may return aspecific transaction, or account token (for multi-account users) whichmay return transactions associated with this account.

TABLE 5 Example transaction status. PENDING Authorization is pendingcompletion from the merchant VOIDED The merchant has voided thepreviously pending authorization SETTLING The merchant has completed thetransaction and the funding source is being debited SETTLED Thetransaction is complete BOUNCED There was an error settling thetransaction against the funding source. Your API account may be disabledDECLINED The transaction was declined

TABLE 6 Example transaction results. APPROVED CARD_PAUSED Card state waspaused at the time of authorization. CARD_CLOSED Card state was closedat the time of authorization. GLOBAL_TRANSACTION_LIMIT Platform spendinglimit exceeded. GLOBAL_WEEKLY_LIMIT Platform spending limit exceeded.GLOBAL_MONTHLY_LIMIT Platform spending limit exceeded.USER_TRANSACTION_LIMIT User-set spending limit exceeded.UNAUTHORIZED_MERCHANT Merchant locked a card attempted at differentmerchants. SINGLE_USE_RECHARGED Single-use card attempted multipletimes. BANK_CONNECTION_ERROR Please reconnect a funding source.INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS Please ensure the funding source is connected and upto date. INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS_PRELOAD Result given when client responds toauthorization request with insufficient funds. MERCHANT_BLACKLIST Thismerchant is disallowed on the platform. INVALID_CARD_DETAILS IncorrectCVV or expiry date. BANK_NOT_VERIFIED Please confirm the funding source.INACTIVE_ACCOUNT ACCOUNT_STATE_TRANSACTION_FAIL UNKNOWN_HOST_TIMEOUTNetwork error, re-attempt the transaction. SWITCH_INOPERATIVE_ADVICENetwork error, re-attempt the transaction. FRAUD_ADVICE Transactiondeclined due to risk. INCORRECT_PIN PIN verification failed.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may receivenotifications about API events, sent as they occur. The transactionmessages from the issuers processor 140 may be the main vehicle throughwhich live transaction handling is performed. Each message may comprisea full transaction object. Transaction messages may generally beseparated along two dimensions: financial versus non-financial messages,and requests versus advice. Financial messages may prompt movement offunds between accounts (e.g., a clearing message that prompts an ACHdebit from the user's connected account), while non-financial messagesmay not prompt movement of funds (e.g., an authorization request thatinduces a hold on funds but doesn't trigger a payment to the merchantuntil the transaction is settled). Authorization holds may be temporary,as transactions that are subsequently declined may have the associatedfunds returned to the end-user for future use. On the other axis,requests may be messages that require a response (i.e., approval ordecline) to the receiver processor 140, while advice messages may notrequire a response other than a notification that the advice wasreceived. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 mayprovide one or more services that provide access to different types ofmessages. As an example and not by way of limitation, one service mayprovide the ability to receive advice. As another example, anotherservice may provide the ability to receive and respond to requests.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may include aweb-based software application, accessible under a software-as-a-service(SaaS) model, such that the receiver processor 140 and related softwareapplications are executed by the receiver processor server 140 b andlittle to no software processes are required by the payer's personalcomputing device or the account processor 120. As an example and not byway of limitation, the account processor 120 may execute a web browserapplication that executes software routines to access webpages, butexecute few software routines for the receiver processor 140. In thisexample, the web browser may comprise a plugin that may execute softwareroutines that communicate data with the receiver processor 140, and themajority of the routines associated with the receiver processor 140 maybe executed by the issuer process server 140 b. It should be appreciatedthat the division of functions between the account processor 120 and theissuer processor server 140 b may vary across embodiments, and may betailored for the power of the account processor 120 and/or the availablebandwidth (e.g., if only a relatively low-bandwidth communicationnetwork 110 is available, the processing may be allocated to reduce theamount of information passed between the account processor 120 and thereceiver processor server 140 b).

In particular embodiments, the software routines of the receiverprocessor 140 may register account holder/client data that is storedinto account profiles 140 c, monitor transactions, and execute a numberof routines to secure a transaction when a new transaction initiation isdetected by the receiver processor 140. The receiver processor server140 b may include one or more computing devices having processorsconfigured to execute the one or more software components or modulesthat provide the account holder 105 or account processor 120 the variousfeatures of the receiver processor 140 described herein. An issuerprocessor server 140 b may comprise network interface circuitry, such asa network interface card (NIC) or similar component, allowing the issuerprocessor server 140 b to communicate with various devices in thepayment system 100, over a communication network 110 or a paymentnetwork 135. The receiver processor server 140 b may be configured tocontinuously communicate and monitor the activity of the account holder105 or account processor 120, and may determine or detect that theaccount holder 105 is engaged in or engages into a transaction with acommerce entity 115. In particular embodiments, the account holder's 105personal computing device or the account processor 120 may have anissuer component, such as a web browser plugin, installed locally, wherethe browser plugin (or other component) may detect the instance ofonline transaction and can then establish one or more secureauthenticating processes with the issuer processor server 140 b. Thatis, in such embodiments, when the account holder's 105 personalcomputing device or the account processor 120 navigates to a webpagecomprising a web transaction form, the issuer component or browserplugin may detect that the browser is at webpage with a transaction formand consequently transmit an indication signal to the receiver processorserver 140 b indicating that the account holder's 105 personal computingdevice or the account processor 120 has landed at the online transactionform. In this example, the receiver processor server 140 b may then betriggered to execute secure authenticating processes.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may compriseaccount profiles 140 c, which may be hosted on one or more computingdevices comprising non-transitory machine-readable storage mediaconfigured to store profile data. In operation, the receiver processorserver 140 b may be communicatively coupled to a database comprising theaccount profiles 140 c via a network, where the network may include aprivate network that is internal to the receiver processor 140. Thereceiver processor server 140 b may register new account holders 105 orenterprise clients, generate new card accounts, and performauthorization checks for transactions received from the payment network135.

During registration, the receiver processor server 140 b may receivedata inputs from the account holder 105 or account processor 120,including funding account identifiers. A funding account may be thesource of funds associated with a particular account, such as a bankaccount, payment card account (credit, debit, stored value, etc.),and/or cryptocurrency account. Although embodiments described hereindescribe funding accounts as being a checking account, debit card, orcredit card, it should be appreciated that the disclosed embodiments canbe configured to be funding account source payment system-agnostic.Non-limiting examples of a funding account may include a bank account(e.g., checking, savings), a payment card account (e.g., credit, debit,stored value card, gift card), non-payment card credit (e.g., fixed termloan, alternative lending, etc.) and cryptocurrency (e.g., Bitcoin).Nothing described herein should be construed as limiting upon the natureof the receiver processor 140 employed as the funding account for anaccount or a card.

The receiver processor server 140 b may then establish encryptedconnections with those funding accounts, which may be at any of avariety of entities, including banks and/or other financialinstitutions. When instructed to generate a new account, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may request that a receiver institution 145and/or server 145 a (or other funding source or server) link the newaccount to that funding account. The receiver processor server 140 b mayalso access this funding account for billing purposes. In someinstances, the receiver processor 140 may function as a receiverinstitution 145, or vice versa, and thus may be understood as the sameentity/actor and/or be contractually related.

In particular embodiments, the issuer-component may generate apublic-private key (or parameter) pair associated with the accountholder's 105 account or the enterprise client's account. The privatekey/parameter may be stored with the issuer-component on the accountholder's 105 personal computing device or the account processor 120, andthe public key/parameter may be transmitted to the receiver processorserver 140 b (and stored in an associated account profile 140 c). Theprivate key may then be used to sign data transmitted with requests togenerate new cards/accounts. The public key may be stored into theaccount holder's/client's profile and may be used by the receiverprocessor server 140 b to determine the authenticity of the request fora new card/account.

During a process for generating a new card/account, after the receiverprocessor server 140 b is instructed to generate a new card/account, thereceiver processor server 140 b may determine the authenticity of therequest based on any number of factors about the account holder/client,account holder's personal computing device, account processor 120, andother factors, which may include thousands of data points. The receiverprocessor server 140 b may store data/one or more records indicating thecommerce entity 115 involved/associated with an ongoing transaction(referred to herein as a “tag” or “merchant tag”), for which the accountholder 105 or account processor 120 has requested a new card/account.The receiver processor server 140 b may store this tag into a record forthe new card/account into the account holder's/client's profile, alongwith the other relevant information associated with the new card/account(e.g., card number, CVV, payment network 135).

During a transaction authorization process, the receiver processorserver 140 b may receive or intercept an authorization query issued fromthe payment network 135 to a receiver institution 145. In some cases,the issuer-component may alert the receiver processor server 140 b tothe transaction and the receiver processor server 140 b may receive thetransaction data before an authorization request is sent from thecommerce entity 115 to the payment network 135. The receiver processorserver 140 b may ultimately determine whether to authorize thetransaction, as the receiver processor server 140 b informs the receiverinstitution 145 or the payment network 135 whether the card isacceptable for the particular transaction. The receiver processor server140 b may query the account profiles 140 c to determine whether the dataabout the card and the account holder/client matches what is stored forthe card in the account profiles 140 c. In some cases, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may determine whether the commerce entity 115identified in the transaction data matches to a commerce entity 115associated with the particular card/account being analyzed, as indicatedby the commerce-entity tag stored in a record of the card/account in theaccount profiles 140 c (in some embodiments stored in and/or associatedwith a account holder/client profile or record).

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may optionallycomprise authentication logic 140 d. The authentication logic 140 d maybe provided by the account processor 120. The authentication logic 140 dmay provide the enterprise client with the ability to make customtransaction approval decisions even if the account processor 120 doesnot comprise a server.

In particular embodiments, the payment network 135 may be referred to asa “card scheme” or just as a “network.” The payment network 135 mayprovide the rails for transactions to occur. The payment network 135 maysit in between acquirers and issuers and pass messages back and forth tomake the transaction happen. The payment network 135 may also set thecommunication rules and standards that the acquirers and issuers need toadhere to. In particular embodiments, the payment network 135 mayreceive payment authorization requests from commerce-entity servers 115a, during or after transactions. New cards/accounts, like any othercredit or debit cards, may be issued through the payment network 135.When a commerce-entity server 115 a queries the payment network 135 onwhether a card should be authorized for a transaction, the paymentnetwork 135 may review the card digits (e.g., Payment Account Number(PAN), Bank Identification Number (BIN), or Issuer Identification Number(IIN), etc.) to identify the receiver institution 145. The paymentnetwork 135 may then query the receiver institution server 145 a whetherto authorize the card. In particular embodiments, several numbers of theaccount/card number associated with a transaction may be configured toidentify the receiver institution 145 as the appropriate party toauthorize the transaction. As such, the payment network 135 may usethese numbers to route the payment authorization request and transactiondata to the receiver institution 145. In some implementations, thereceiver institution server 145 a may forward the authorization query tothe receiver processor 140, which may then perform the requisitedeterminations, including whether the transaction data identifies thecorrect commerce entity 115 that matches the card's commerce-entity tag.The payment network 135 may then return an approval or rejection to thecommerce-entity server 115 a based upon how the receiver institutionserver 145 a and receiver processor server 140 b respond.

FIG. 2 illustrates an example flow diagram 200 for account initiationand validation. The account initiation may be optionally started by theaccount holder 105. In particular embodiments, the account holder 105may send a request for account generation 205 to the account processorserver 120 a. In alternative embodiments, the account holder 105 maysend a request for payment 210 to the account processor server 120 a. Inparticular embodiments, the account holder 105 sending a request forpayment 210 comprises a request for account generation 205. As anexample and not by way of limitation, the request for payment 210 may bebased on the account holder's 105 attempt to make a purchase online. Inparticular embodiments, the account processor server 120 a may make anAPI call for account generation 215. The API call may be responsive tothe request for account creation 205 or request for payment 210. Inalternative embodiments, the account processor server 120 a may make theAPI call without any payer input. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the enterprise client associated with the account processorserver 120 a may need to create individual accounts for its employees orcontractors for its own business. The API call for account generation215 may be based on the receiver processor API 140 a. Through thereceiver processor API 140 a, the receiver processor server 140 b mayget the configurations for account generation 220. As an example and notby way of limitation, the configurations may comprise various accountcreation data, including email, password, access code (if applicable),name, address, birthday, and/or the like. The configurations may alsocomprise general information about the enterprise client or the accountholder 105 (including preferences, interests, demographics, etc.) and/orknow-your-customer (KYC) and/or other regulatory data. Theconfigurations may further comprise one or more funding sources, such asthe enterprise client's root account associated with the receiverinstitutions 145 (e.g., credit card accounts, checking accounts, savingsaccounts, or other financial accounts), that the enterprise clientwishes to use as a funding source to generate the individual accounts.Although embodiments described herein describe funding accounts as beinga checking account, savings account, debit card account, or credit cardaccount, it should be appreciated that some embodiments can beconfigured to be agnostic to the funding source and/or payment system.Non-limiting examples of funding accounts/sources include a bank account(e.g., checking, savings), a payment card account (e.g., credit, debit,stored value card, gift card), and cryptocurrency (e.g., Bitcoin).

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may usethe configurations 220 to initialize an account/generate funding queryrequest 225. During account initialization, the receiver processorserver 140 b may perform geographic analysis, temporal/geographicanalysis, and behavioral pattern analysis. The analysis may be based ondata collected by the aggregated transaction data. In someimplementations, the receiver processor server 140 b may obtain anidentifier (ID, account identifier, etc.) for a payer/client requestingan account. The receiver processor server 140 b may query a database,such as an receiver database and/or payment network database, forspecific data collected by aggregated account transaction data recordsof the payer/client. The receiver processor server 140 b may also querythe databases for all possible field values that can be taken by each ofthe field values (e.g., time, AM/PM, postal code, merchant name,merchant identifier, transaction amount, cost, etc.). Using the fieldvalues of all the fields, the receiver processor server 140 b maygenerate field value pairs for use in a correlation analysis on thefield value pairs. An example field value pair is: “time” is “AM(Pacific)”, and “merchant” is “Best Coffee Shop.” The receiver processorserver 140 b may then generate/determine probability estimates for eachfield value pair occurring, for example, in the aggregated transactiondata records. As an example and not by way of limitation, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may select a field value pair and determine thenumber of records within the aggregated transaction data records wherethe field value pair occurs. The receiver processor server 140 b maythen calculate a probability quotient for the field value pair, forexample, by dividing the number determined for the occurrences of thefield value pair by the total number of aggregate transaction datarecords. The receiver processor server 140 b may also assign aconfidence level for the probability quotient based on the sample size(e.g., total number of records in the aggregated transaction datarecords). The receiver processor server 140 b may generate and store arecord, such as described above, including the field value pair, theprobability quotient, and the confidence level associated with theprobability quotient. The receiver processor server 140 b may performsuch a computation for each field value pair generated. The field valuepairs and associated records may be used by the receiver processorserver 140 b when determining if a request is valid, and/or whendetermining whether to require additional validating information fromthe account holder/client (such as described above when the accountholder 105 is outside of specified geographic area), and the accountholder/client may be prompted to re-authenticate.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may alsoanalyze the commerce entity's location or the location from which theaccount generation is being requested to determine if the commerceentity 115 is valid. Such analysis may be based on commerce entity'sinformation collected by the account processor server 120 a, history ofthe commerce entity 115, owner of the commerce entity 115, location ofthe commerce entity 115, location of the owner of the commerce entity115, whether the commerce entity 115 is on a fraud list (or theprobability the commerce entity 115 is related to a commerce entity 115on a fraud list), etc. If the receiver processor server 140 b determinesthat the commerce entity 115 exceeds a specified risk threshold (e.g.,either because of collected information or lack of availableinformation), or otherwise determines the commerce entity 115 is notvalid, the receiver processor server 140 b may transmit a notificationto the account processor server 120 a and/or the account holder 105 thatthe commerce entity 115 is not valid (or has the potential to beinvalid). In some embodiments, a determination about the validity of acommerce entity 115 may prevent the payer/client from receiving anaccount for the commerce entity 115, while in other embodiments, thereceiver processor server 140 b may allow the account holder/client,once notified about the risk, to proceed with the transaction and acceptthe risk. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 bmay determine if the account holder/client already has an existingaccount that is tagged to the commerce entity 115, and if so, mayretrieve the information for the existing tagged account, provide theaccount information to the account holder 105 or account processorserver 120 a, and update the corresponding record.

In particular embodiments, the goal of funding query request 225 may beto make sure an individual account can be funded and/or confirm that thestated information (e.g., identity, location, funding information,and/or the like) is accurate/truthful. In some embodiments, a fundingsource may be required for creating an account, while in otherembodiments, a specified funding source may be not initially requiredfor creating an account, though in such embodiments, a validated fundingsource may be required prior to providing account for use in atransaction.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may sendthe funding query request 230 to the receiver institution server 145 a(e.g., a bank server associated with a funding checking accountindicated by the client-provided information). Optionally, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may generate a funding authorization request235. The receiver institution server 145 a may then either send thefunding authorization request/confirmation 240 a to the accountprocessor server 120 a or send the funding authorizationrequest/confirmation 240 b to the account holder 105 forvalidation/approval. In one embodiment, the account processor server 120a may validate/approve the funding authorization 245 a. In anotherembodiment, the account holder 105 may validate/approve the fundingauthorization 245 b, which may be returned to the account processorserver 120 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may generate a message to the account holder105, such as a text message, mobile application message, email, and/orthe like, to which the account holder 105 may reply and/or confirm thatthe requested funding information is approved/acceptable. The accountprocessor server 120 a may then send the approval message 250 to thereceiver institution server 145 a. As another example and not by way oflimitation, the receiver institution server 145 a may approve or conducta micro-transaction (e.g., a transaction for a small amount such as$0.13, $1.07, etc.) that shows up on the account holder's 105 orenterprise client's funding account and the account holder 105 oraccount processor server 120 a may provide that specified amount and/ora code associated with the micro-transaction in response to show thatthe account holder 105 or account processor server 120 a has access tothe account, in order to validate the funding account. In particularembodiments, upon receiving the approval message 250, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may validate the funding query request, i.e.,process approval/generate validation 255. In particular embodiments, thereceiver institution server 145 a may perform process approval/generatevalidation 255 without sending an authorization request to the accountholder 105 or account processor server 120 a.

In particular embodiments, the receiver institution server 145 a mayprovide an account funding validation 260 to the receiver processorserver 140 b. Once the receiver processor server 140 b has received thefunding account validation 260, it may create an individual account(including updating/creating a corresponding record in a database of thereceiver processor 140). In particular embodiments, the individualaccount may be tagged to one or more specific commerce entities 115. Theindividual account may be generated as a bank account by the bank,issuer, or other type of financial institution whose servers areconfigured to receive instructions from the issuer processor server 140b. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b maystore the new account information into the account profiles 140 c. Thereceiver processor server 140 b may also generate data indicating thatthe particular account is limited to use for the particular commerceentity 115. This data (referred to herein as a “tag”) may be stored intoand/or associated with the record of the new account or account profile140 c, and may be referenced by the receiver processor server 140 b inthe future to determine whether to authorize transactions attempting tosubmit the new account's number to a commerce entity 115 as a method ofpayment. Depending on the implementation, the record, account profile140 c, account(s), tag(s), etc. may be stored in a single record or inmultiple, linked/associated records on one or more servers and/ordatabases.

In particular embodiments, the account creation 265 may be sent to thereceiver processor API 140 a, which may then transmit a notification ofcreated account 270 to the account processor server 120 a, indicatingthe requested account has been created for them. The account processorserver 120 a may download, access, and/or otherwise receive/retrieverelated software program(s)/module(s), that, whenactivated/instantiated/run, can monitor the account holder's 105actions/behaviors/interaction, such as browsing, transactions initiatedby the account holder's 105 personal computing device (and associatedprograms), and interact with the receiver processor 140. In particularembodiments, the account processor server 120 a may optionally send anotification of account data 275 to the account holder 105. As anexample and not by way of limitation, the account data may compriseaccount number, routing number, merchant tag, etc.

In particular embodiments, the account processor server 120 a mayoptionally make another API call to deploy its own authentication logic280. Upon receiving the API call, the receiver processor server 140 bmay store the authentication logic 285. The authentication logic mayprovide the account processor 120 the ability to make custom transactionapproval decisions without implementing it on its account processorserver 120 a or even if the account processor 120 does not have aserver. Instead, the receiver processor 140 may implement and run theauthentication logic on its server 140 b.

FIG. 3 illustrates an example flow diagram 300 for card initiation andvalidation. The card initiation may optionally be started by the accountholder 105. In particular embodiments, the account holder 105 may send arequest for card generation 305 to the account processor server 120 a.In alternative embodiments, the account holder 105 may send a requestfor payment 310 to the account processor server 120 a. As an example andnot by way of limitation, the request for payment 310 may be based onthe account holder's 105 attempt to make a purchase online. Inparticular embodiments, the account processor server 120 a may make anAPI call for card generation 315. The API call may be responsive to therequest for card creation 305 or request for payment 310. However, theaccount processor server 120 a may make the API call without any payerinput. As an example and not by way of limitation, the enterprise clientassociated with the account processor server 120 a may need to createindividual cards for its employees or contractors for its own business.The API call for card generation 315 may be based on the receiverprocessor API 140 a. Through the receiver processor API 140 a, thereceiver processor server 140 b may get the configurations for cardgeneration 320. As an example and not by way of limitation, theconfigurations may comprise various card creation data, including email,password, access code (if applicable), name, address, birthday, and/orthe like. The configurations may also comprise general information aboutthe enterprise client or the account holder 105 (including preferences,interests, demographics, etc.) and/or know-your-customer (KYC) and/orother regulatory data. The configurations may further comprise one ormore funding sources, such as the enterprise client's root accountassociated with the receiver institutions 145 (e.g., credit cardaccounts, checking accounts, savings accounts, or other financialaccounts) the enterprise client wishes to use as a funding source togenerate the individual cards. Although embodiments described hereindescribe funding accounts as being a checking account, savings account,debit card account, or credit card account, it should be appreciatedthat some embodiments can be configured to be funding account sourceagnostic/payment system agnostic. Non-limiting examples of a fundingaccounts/sources include a bank account (e.g., checking, savings), apayment card account (e.g., credit, debit, stored value card, giftcard), and cryptocurrency (e.g., Bitcoin).

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may usethe configurations to initialize card/generate funding query request325. During card initialization, the receiver processor server 140 b mayperform geographic analysis, temporal/geographic analysis, andbehavioral pattern analysis. The analysis may be based on data collectedby the aggregated transaction data. In some implementations, thereceiver processor server 140 b may obtain an identifier (ID, accountidentifier, etc.) for an account holder/client requesting a card. Thereceiver processor server 140 b may query a database, such as a receiverdatabase and/or payment network database, for specific data collected byaggregated card transaction data records of the account holder/client.The receiver processor server 140 b may also query the databases for allpossible field values that can be taken by each of the field values(e.g., time, AM/PM, postal code, merchant name, merchant identifier,transaction amount, cost, etc.). Using the field values of all thefields, the receiver processor server 140 b may generate field valuepairs for use in a correlation analysis on the field value pairs. Anexample field value pair is: “time” is “AM (Pacific)” and “merchant” is“Best Coffee Shop” The receiver processor server 140 b may thengenerate/determine probability estimates for each field value pairoccurring, As an example and not by way of limitation, occurring in theaggregated transaction data records. As another example and not by wayof limitation, the receiver processor server 140 b may select a fieldvalue pair and determine the number of records within the aggregatedtransaction data records where the field value pair occurs. The receiverprocessor server 140 b may then calculate a probability quotient for thefield value pair, for example, by dividing the number determined for theoccurrences of the field value pair by the total number of aggregatetransaction data records. The receiver processor server 140 b may alsoassign a confidence level for the probability quotient based on thesample size (e.g., total number of records in the aggregated transactiondata records). The receiver processor server 140 b may generate andstore a record, such as described above, including the field value pair,the probability quotient, and the confidence level associated with theprobability quotient. The receiver processor server 140 b may performsuch a computation for each field value pair generated. The field valuepairs and associated records may be used by the receiver processorserver 140 b when determining if a request is valid, and/or whendetermining whether to require additional validating information fromthe account holder/client (such as described above when the payer isoutside of specified geographic area), and the account holder 105 may beprompted to re-authenticate.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may alsoanalyze the commerce entity's location for or from which the card isbeing requested to determine if the commerce entity 115 is valid. Suchanalysis may be based on commerce entity's information collected by theaccount processor server 120 a, history of the commerce entity 115,owner of the commerce entity 115, location of the commerce entity 115,location of the owner of the commerce entity 115, whether the commerceentity 115 is on a fraud list (or the probability the commerce entity115 is related to a commerce entity 115 on a fraud list), etc. If thereceiver processor server 140 b determines that the commerce entity 115exceeds a specified risk threshold (e.g., either because of collectedinformation or lack of available information), or otherwise determinesthe commerce entity 115 is not valid, the receiver processor server 140b may transmit a notification to the account processor server 120 aand/or the account holder 105 that the commerce entity 115 is not valid(or has the potential to be invalid). In some embodiments, adetermination about the validity of a commerce entity 115 may preventthe account holder/client from receiving a card for the commerce entity115, while in other embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b mayallow the account holder/client, once notified about the risk, toproceed with the transaction and accept the risk.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b maydetermine if the account holder/client already has an existing card thatis tagged to the commerce entity 115 (typically a multi-use card, assingle-use cards may be limited to a single transaction), and if so, mayretrieve the information for the existing tagged card, provide the cardinformation to the account processor server 120 a or account holder 105,and update the corresponding record. If the receiver processor server140 b determines that the commerce entity 115 is not already associatedwith an existing card for the account holder/client, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may determine (in some embodiments, based onaccount holder/client specified information and/or parameters) if a newcard for the commerce entity 115 is to be a single-use card or amulti-use card (e.g., for recurring payments, such as a monthlysubscription). If single use, the receiver processor server 140 b maygenerate a merchant-tagged single-use card and corresponding record (asdetailed above) and provide/transmit the single-use card information tothe account holder/client (and in turn the information may be providedto the account holder 105 and commerce entity 115 corresponding to thetag). If multi-use, the receiver processor server 140 b may generate amerchant-tagged multi-use card and corresponding record and transmitinformation regarding that tagged multi-use card to the accountprocessor server 120 a or account holder 105 in recurring payments. Insome embodiments, the multi-use tagged card may be configured forrecurring payments to the tagged commerce entity 115 (e.g., a monthlysubscription for a particular commerce entity 115), where the amount isunlikely to vary widely, if at all, and the timing of payment/charge islikely to be at a particular time each time period (e.g., the first ofevery month, or the first week of every month). In other embodiments,the merchant-tagged, multi-use card may be configured such that anaccount holder 105 can use the card at the tagged commerce entity 115for a specified or unlimited amount of transactions, and may further beconfigured to limit the transaction amount per period and/or pertransaction. In such embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 bmay still perform the analytics on the payer/client behavior, merchantinformation, and/or other collected data to confirm that each cardrequest/transaction request and each payment validation is valid, andthe matching may be performed for each.

In particular embodiments, the goal of funding query request 325 may beto make sure that an individual card can be funded and/or confirm thatthe stated information (e.g., identity, location, funding information,and/or the like) is accurate/truthful. In some embodiments, a fundingsource may be required for creating a card, while in other embodiments,a specified funding source may be not initially required for creating acard, though in such embodiments, a validated funding source may berequired prior to providing a card for use in a transaction.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may sendthe funding query request 330 to the receiver institution server 145 a(e.g., a bank server associated with a funding checking accountindicated by the client-provided information). Optionally, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may generate a funding authorization request335. The receiver institution server 145 a may then either send thefunding authorization request/confirmation 340 a to the accountprocessor server 120 a or send the funding authorizationrequest/confirmation 340 b to the account holder 105 forvalidation/approval. In one embodiment, the account processor server 120a may validate/approve the funding authorization 345 a. In anotherembodiment, the account holder 105 may validate/approve the fundingauthorization 345 b, which may be returned to the account processorserver 120 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may generate a message to the account holder105, such as a text message, mobile application message, email, and/orthe like, to which the account holder 105 may reply and/or or confirmthat the requested funding information is approved/acceptable. Theaccount processor server 120 may then send the approval message 350 tothe receiver institution server 145 a. As another example and not by wayof limitation, the receiver institution server 145 a may approve orconduct a micro-transaction (e.g., a transaction for a small amount suchas $0.13, $1.07, etc.) that shows up on the account holder's 105 orenterprise client's funding account and the account holder 105 oraccount processor server 120 a may provide that specified amount and/ora code associated with the micro-transaction in response to show thatthe account holder 105 or account processor server 120 a has access tothe account, in order to validate the funding account. In particularembodiments, upon receiving the approval message 350, the receiverinstitution server 145 a may validate the funding query request, i.e.,process approval/generate validation 355. In particular embodiments, thereceiver institution server 145 a may perform process approval/generatevalidation 355 without sending an authorization request to the accountholder 105 or account processor server 120 a.

In particular embodiments, the receiver institution server 145 a mayprovide a card funding validation 360 to the receiver processor server140 b. Once the receiver processor server 140 b has received the cardfunding validation 360, the receiver processor server 140 b may performcard and tagged record generation 365. Specifically, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may create an individual card (includingupdating/creating a corresponding record in a database of the receiverprocessor 140). The receiver processor server 140 b may also tag theindividual card to one or more specific commerce entities 115. Theindividual card may be generated as an actual debit/credit card accountor virtual card by the bank, issuer, or other type of financialinstitution whose servers are configured to receive instructions fromthe receiver processor server 140 b. For a physical card, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may access a card issuer server to requestgeneration of the physical card. In particular embodiments, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may store the new card information into theaccount profiles 140 c. The receiver processor server 140 b may alsogenerate data indicating that the particular card is limited to use forthe particular commerce entity 115. This data (referred to herein as a“tag”) may be stored into and/or associated with the record of the newcard or account profile 140 c, and may be referenced by the receiverprocessor server 140 b in the future to determine whether to authorizetransactions attempting to use the new card at a commerce entity 115 asa method of payment. Depending on the implementation, the record,account profile 140 c, card(s), tag(s), etc. may be stored in a singlerecord or in multiple, linked/associated records on one or more serversand/or databases.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may senda card generation response 370 to the receiver processor API 140 a,which may then transmit a notification of card generation 375 to theaccount processor server 120 a, indicating the requested card has beencreated for them. The account processor server 120 a may download,access, and/or otherwise receive/retrieve related softwareprogram(s)/module(s), that, when activated/instantiated/run, can monitorthe account holder's 105 actions/behaviors/interaction, such as usingthe card at commerce entities 115, browsing, transactions initiated bythe account holder's 105 personal computing device (and associatedprograms), and interact with the receiver processor 140. In particularembodiments, the account processor server 120 a may optionally send anotification of card data 380 to the account holder 105. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the card data may comprise card number,authorization code (CVV), expiration date, merchant tag, etc.

In particular embodiments, the account processor server 120 mayoptionally make another API call to deploy its own authentication logic385. Upon receiving the API call, the receiver processor server 140 bmay store the authentication logic 390. The authentication logic mayprovide the account processor 120 the ability to make custom transactionapproval decisions without implementing it on its account processorserver 120 a or even if the account processor 120 does not have aserver. Instead, the receiver processor 140 may implement and run theauthentication logic on its server 140 c.

FIG. 4 illustrates an example flow diagram 400 for enabling atransaction by the receiver processor 140. In particular embodiments,the account holder 105 may initialize transaction payment informationand purchase request 402 to the commerce entity 115. As an example andnot by way of limitation, the account holder 105 may use a card at apayment machine 115 b associated with the commerce entity 115. Asanother example, for online transaction, the account holder 105 mayprovide input into a personal computing device, such as mobileapplication input (e.g., via a user interface such as a touch screen,voice commands, gestures, eye-tracking, etc.) and web navigation input(via keyboard, mouse, other peripheral, etc.). Additional input may bemonitored, tracked, and/or recorded, including direct input from theaccount holder 105, information/data from another program or applicationrunning on the personal computing device, information/data from sensorsof the personal computing device (e.g., GPS data, BLUETOOTH data,wireless network data, camera data, video data, photo data, microphonedata, accelerometer data, etc.), and/or the like.

In particular embodiments, the commerce entity 115 may collect thetransaction data (including the account/card information) and purchaserequest (e.g., via the payment machine 115 b). For online transactions,the commerce entity 115 may comprise any number of servers 115 aresponsible for processing incoming online transaction data, or thecommerce entity 115 may transmit the data from the online transaction tothe servers of a third-party payment-processing vendor. In either case,the account/card information and any other relevant data may besubmitted to the appropriate verifying party, after the onlinetransaction data comprising the payment information is received from theaccount holder's 105 personal computing device.

In particular embodiments, the commerce entity 115 may then transmit thetransaction data (e.g., as a transaction submission request 404) to theoriginator processor 125 (for the appropriate originator institution130). The originator processor 125 may in turn transmit a transactionverification request 406 including the transaction data (typically viathe payment network 135) to the receiver processor server 140 b.

In particular embodiments, the transaction data that is provided by thecommerce entity 115 and goes through to the receiver processor server140 b may comprise one or more of card information, payment/chargeamount, billing information, or card acceptor name and location. Thecard acceptor name and location may be defined, for example, to be 43characters in length, divided into 4 distinct sub-properties: positions1-25 is address data, positions 26-38 is city data, positions 39-40 isstate data, positions 41-43 is country data. The disclosed messages mayconform to the appropriate ISO protocols, and, unlike other paymentmethods that require use of new data formats, communications equipment,complex security token, and/or complex user-defined rules, may notrequire any additional burden, bandwidth, or processing power on thepart of the commerce entity 115, the originator processor 125, thereceiver processor server 140 b, and/or the payment network 135(depending on which are implicated in the transaction). The transactiondata received by the receiver processor server 140 b may be analyzed,such as by tag matching and/or as detailed below.

As noted above, the receiver processor 140 may not require additionalbandwidth, or even additional processing on the part of the commerceentity 115 or intermediary parties—the card issued by the receiverprocessor 140 may be handled by them in the same way as a traditionalcredit card without requiring the commerce entity 115 to provideadditional information, making the receiver processor 140 function forcommerce entities 115 relying on payment methods used more than a decadeago while also be functional with commerce entities 115 that have thelatest payment methods (e.g., tokenized payment, mobile wallet, QRpayment, etc.). As such, when the receiver processor server 140 breceives card acceptor name and location, the format and content of thatinformation may vary widely.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b mayoptionally convert the transaction verification request 408 for thereceiver processor API 140 a and provide it to the receiver processorAPI 140 a. A transaction request via the API 410 may be then sent to theaccount processor server 120 a. It should be understood that, in someimplementations, the originator institution 130/originator processor125, receiver institution 145/receiver processor 140, and/or the paymentnetwork 135 may not be included and/or may represent/be associated withthe same entity (e.g., if the originator institution 130 is also thereceiver institution 145), and in any event the relevant informationstarting with the information provided by the commerce entity 115 may beultimately provided to the receiver processor server 140 b (e.g., in theform a transaction verification request 406). In particular embodiments,the account processor server 120 a may verify the data by itself. Inalternative embodiments, the account processor server 120 a may call theAPI for data verification 412 by the receiver processor 140. Thereceiver processor API 140 a may transmit the data verification request414 to the receiver processor server 140 b.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b mayperform data verification 416, which may be responsive to thetransaction verification request 406 or data verification request 414.During data verification 416, the receiver processor server 140 b maydetermine whether to authorize the payment by comparing fields of thetransaction data against fields stored in the account profiles 140 c. Asan example and not by way of limitation, the receiver processor server140 b may receive the card number and then cross-reference the cardnumber against the corresponding record in account profiles 140 c. Usingthe transaction data, the receiver processor server 140 b may determinenot only whether the data associated with the card number is generallycorrect (e.g., card number, CVV, name, address), and may also determinewhether the transaction data identifies the commerce entity 115 as theparticular commerce entity 115 tagged to the particular card number.Conventional systems may determine whether the inputted data is accurateand satisfies the required data field inputs. Some conventional systemsmay link cards/accounts to categories of commerce entities 115 throughthe well-known MCC coding standards, which may limit the category forthe card number. In some cases, conventional systems may limit thenumber of uses for the card number. Some conventional systems may beavailable to commerce entities 115 wanting to publish their ownmerchant-specific branded cards, such as gift cards, but these may beunwieldy, and may be not brand agnostic. Here, the transaction data maycomprise an indicator for the particular commerce entity 115 associatedwith the transaction, which may then be matched to a tag stored in therecord of the card. Thus, the limitations may be addressed, but theremay be additional protection over known authorization techniques,because a card number stolen from Merchant A cannot be later used to payfor transactions to Merchant B, as the receiver processor server 140 bmay automatically review the transaction data before issuing averification response to the payment network 135.

In particular embodiments, the transaction data that is received by thereceiver processor server 140 b may be unstructured, making it difficultto match the transaction message with the commerce entity 115 thatoriginated the transaction. The address field may generally be used forthe name of the commerce entity/service (though the name is sometimeincomplete or missing), and the city field may be sometimes used forcity, other times with the domain name, phone number, service name,etc., and state and country may sometimes be offshore for a domesticbusiness.

In particular embodiments, when the receiver processor server 140 breceives a transaction verification request 406, a confidence score maybe calculated for whether the charge matches the metadata captured whengenerating the corresponding card. In some implementations, first thecard acceptor name and location address and city subfields may belexically parsed and tokenized by splitting on any non-alphanumericcharacters. This may yield what can be understood or defined as abag-of-words (BOW), and the BOW of the lexically parsed and tokenizedsubfields defined as a first BOW (“BOW A”). The BOW may comprise datawhere text is represented as the multiset of its components, in someembodiments disregarding grammar and word order while keepingmultiplicity. A second BOW (“BOW B”) may comprise the stored metadatafrom the configurations for card generation 320 collected when the cardwas generated/created. Depending on the implementation, a variety ofprocesses may be applied, for example, words of two characters or lessmay be stripped from both bags. Similarly, commonly occurring stringssuch as www, inc, llc may additionally or alternatively be stripped outfrom both bags.

Then, BOW A and BOW B may be input to a function (e.g., Bayesianprobability function, k-means clustering algorithm, etc.) that returns apercentage confidence score that BOW A is related to BOW B. If theprobability is over a specified threshold T, then the receiver processorserver 140 b may communicate that the charge is accepted, else thereceiver processor server 140 b may communicate that the charge isdeclined. In some embodiments, threshold T may change as moretransactions are processed and/or as a probability function (e.g., Bayesfunction) and/or cluster analysis (e.g., k-means clustering algorithm)is trained and/or updated with historical data. In some embodiments, ifthe threshold T was not reached, the receiver processor server 140 b maydetermine if the card was created within a given time period (e.g.,within the past five minutes) and if so, provided the other parametersare within tolerances (e.g., payment amount), the charge may be approvedbased on temporal locality as an indicator of validity (presuming theprobability function returned a false negative). For onlinetransactions, the authorization decisioning of the receiver processorserver 140 b may be enhanced by comparing entered information, such asbilling information, at checkout with corresponding information, such asAVS (address verification system) information passed within theauthorization message. Some information entered at time of billing may,in some embodiments, comprise coded or tagged information based on thecard generation. In some embodiments, the receiver processor server 140b may determine if the authorization amount matches what was collectedas the total on card created (in some embodiments, within specifiedtolerances to account for service fees and/or service/conveniencecharges).

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b mayutilize stream training and matching for authorization. In someimplementations, the receiver processor server 140 b may utilizeclustering analysis, for example, to analyze two or more BOWs. In oneembodiment, BOWs may be input to a k-means clustering algorithm. In someimplementations, a k-means cluster may be retrained every time a newcard is generated/created. In some embodiments, a k-means cluster mayutilize the number of clusters to compute when the model is trained, andeach commerce entity 115 for which a card is created may be a cluster.For each cluster, the receiver processor server 140 b may tokenize everyword (and/or every word meeting specifications, such as a length greaterthan 1 character, etc.) and vectorize it to create a BOW. For an examplemerchant “Merchant A”, an example card request may generate a BOW havingthe form of: [“merchant A”, “your”, “wallet”, “utf8”, “2062664064”,“reno”, “nv”, “usa” ]. Depending on the implementation, the k-meanscluster may include more than 100, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000,6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000, 11000, 12000, 13000, 14000, 15000, 20000,25000, 30000, 40000, 50000, or more than 100000 unique clusters. Thereceiver processor server 140 b may, in some embodiments, retrain thek-means clustering on each card-create request, to retrain the k-meanscluster with the new, additional cluster added.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may usebehavioral pattern analysis in validating an incoming transaction. Insome embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may also utilizemachine learning to provide dynamic (i.e., real-time and/or nearreal-time) fraud and risk management, including fraud/risk scoring. Thereceiver processor server 140 b may collect many different data pointsper account holder/client and transaction which may be aggregated in acentralized database. This data may be secured and augmented withthird-party data. Machine-learning models may be applied to analyze thedata and assign a risk score (e.g., from 1-100, based on increasingrisk). This risk score may allow the receiver processor server 140 b tofurther analyze/determine whether a transaction should be authorized orrejected. This score may also allow the receiver processor server 140 bto determine what risk management actions it may take with an accountholder/client, including but not limited to lending and underwriting aswell as fraud monitoring and prevention. In some instances, the riskscore may be dynamic because the machine-learning models may runcontinuously and may be constantly refining themselves based on thelatest data inputs.

In particular embodiments, after data verification 416, a verificationresponse 418 may be provided to the receiver processor API 140 a. Thereceiver processor API 140 a may further transmit the verificationresponse via API 420 to the account processor server 120 a. Inparticular embodiments, the transaction approve/decline response via API422 may be returned to the receiver processor API 140 a. The receiverprocessor API 140 a may then convert the transaction response 424 forthe receiver processor server 140 b.

In particular embodiments, after the receiver processor server 140 b oraccount processor server 120 a determines from the transaction data thatthe commerce entity 115 is not the commerce entity 115 identified by thetag stored in the record for the card number, as indicated in theaccount profiles 140 c, the receiver processor server 140 b or accountprocessor server 120 a may then return a rejection/decline indicatormessage. It should be noted that the card owner's true and accurateinformation may be submitted for verification, but the transaction maystill be declined. A bad actor, such as a hacker, may be able to stealenough accurate data about the card/bank account from its owner to becapable of submitting the requisite information. The payment, however,may be rejected when the transaction data for the commerce entity 115 isnot matched to the tag associated with the card number under scrutiny.

In particular embodiments, after the receiver processor server 140 b oraccount processor server 120 a determines from the transaction data thatthe commerce entity 115 is the commerce entity 115 identified by the tagstored in the record for the card number, as indicated in the accountprofiles 140 c, the receiver processor server 140 b or account processorserver 120 a may then return an approval indicator message.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may sendthe transaction verification response 426 via the payment network 135 tothe originator processor 125. The originator processor 125 mayoptionally initiate completion of transaction 428. In particularembodiments, the payment network 135 may send an advice message 430 tothe receiver processor server 140 b, which may process the advicemessage 432. The receiver processor server 140 b may send the approvedresponse 434 to the payment network 135. In particular embodiments, thepayment network 135 may generate an advice message 438 based on theapproved response 434 and send it to the originator processor 125. Theoriginator processor 125 may send the transaction submission response440 to the commerce entity 115. The commerce entity 115 may then returnthe transaction payment information and purchase response 442 to theaccount holder 105.

In particular embodiments, while sending the approved response 434 tothe payment network 135, the receiver processor server 140 b maygenerate a clearing message 436 for the receiver processor API 140 a.The receiver processor API 140 a may send the clearing message via API444 to the account processor server 120 a. The account processor server120 a may then acknowledge via API 446 the receipt of the clearingmessage.

Permission-Based Virtual Bank Account (VBAN) Payments

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may provide adynamic and customizable development platform for implementing VBANsolutions to decouple a user's root account, including stored valuebalances for the root account, from publicly routable accountcredentials. The user may be, for example, an account holder 105, anenterprise client, or employees of an enterprise client. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may decouple a user's rootaccount credentials from publicly routable account credentials with avirtual bank account (VBAN) having a Payment Account Number (PAN).Although this disclosure refers to VBAN throughout, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable means of decoupling a user's root accountcredentials from publicly routable account credentials. The receiverprocessor 140 may allow VBANs to fully participate in financialinterchange networks and clearing houses by sending and receivingpayments or transactions. By utilizing permission-based VBANs customizedfor user-specific use cases, the receiver processor 140 may facilitatereal-time payments or transactions (as opposed to, e.g., simply cachingfunds) while protecting sensitive financial information, shielding usersagainst fraud and overbilling, and ensuring that each approvedtransaction conforms to specific parameters applicable to thattransaction. Although this disclosure describes implementing VBANs byparticular processors in a particular manner, this disclosurecontemplates implementing VBANs by any suitable processor in anysuitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may receive, froman external server, a transaction authorization request to authorize atransaction associated with a transfer of resources to a receivingentity from a user. The receiver processor 140 may then retrieve, froman associated database, a transaction resource configuration of a VBANfor transactions associated with the receiving entity and the user. Inparticular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may create a new VBANand a transaction resource configuration for the newly created VBAN. Inparticular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration may bedecoupled from an external resource account associated with the user andthe VBAN. The receiver processor 140 may then determine whether one ormore parameters of the transaction resource configuration are satisfiedbased on metadata associated with the transaction authorization request.The receiver processor 140 may further transmit, to the external server,responsive to determining whether the one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are satisfied, a transactionauthorization response indicating whether the transaction is authorized.In particular embodiments, the transaction being authorized may cause astored value balance associated with the external resource account to bereduced based on the transfer of resources associated with thetransaction.

A traditional bank account may have publicly routable accountcredentials, including a routing number, an account number, and a storedvalue balance. A traditional bank account may allow the account holderto send and receive transactions (e.g., ACH, wire, ATM withdrawal,etc.). A traditional bank account may also enable the account holder todisplay a list of previous transactions. A traditional bank account maybe accessed by one or more account holders. Different from a traditionalbank account, a VBAN may decouple the concept of stored value balancefrom publicly routable account credentials. For example, a VBAN mayshield a user's root account's credentials and stored value balancesfrom being transmitted to other entities for a given transaction (e.g.,a merchant, an issuing bank, a financial interchange network or clearinghouse). As a result, the embodiments disclosed herein may have atechnical advantage of protecting sensitive financial information of auser.

Many businesses may not allow remotely originated debits to their bankaccounts. Instead, a designated professional (e.g., a controller) maylogin to their bank portal and push out payments to all debitrequesters, which may be inefficient. By contrast, VBANs may enable thereceiver processor 140 to streamline payments or transactions byallowing for the receipt of transaction authorization requests. Ifreceived transaction authorization requests conform to preset parameters(e.g., entitlements, constraints, etc.) of the VBANs, the transactionauthorization requests may be allowed to go through. If a particularpreset constraint or a threshold number of preset constraints areviolated, the receiver processor 140 may automatically reject thecorresponding transaction authorization request.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may receive anindication that the user has requested a VBAN to be generated fortransactions associated with the receiving entity. As an example and notby way of limitation, the account holder 105 or the account processor120 may be the user and may request the receiver processor 140 to eitherissue a new VBAN or identify an existing VBAN. The request may bereceived at the receiver processor 140 via the API 140 a. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may generate, determine,receive, and/or retrieve specific parameters associated with the VBANwhen issuing a new VBAN. The receiver processor 140 may retrievespecific parameters associated with the VBAN when retrieving an existingVBAN.

In particular embodiments, the new VBAN or existing VBAN may beassociated with the account holder 105 or the account processor 120. Thenew VBAN or existing VBAN may also be associated with a receivingentity, e.g., a commerce entity 115. In particular embodiments, the VBANmay have a transaction resource configuration specifying whether theVBAN is authorized for single-use, multi-use, or unlimited use.

In particular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration maycomprise a stored value balance associated with the VBAN. Thetransaction resource configuration may be configured to access a storedvalue balance of a quantity of available resources in the externalresource account (i.e., a root bank account). In particular embodiments,a user may provision zero or more VBANs that may be associated with, anddraw resources from, a primary external resource account. In particularembodiments, one or more additional external resource accounts may beassociated with VBANs provisioned by the user. In particularembodiments, the primary external resource account may take precedenceover the one or more additional external resource accounts. Inparticular embodiments, one or more of the external resource accountsmay be associated with a financial interchange network or an automatedclearing house. Each VBAN may have preset parameters (e.g.,entitlements, constraints, etc.) that define the behavior andcircumstances in which it is authorized to conduct particulartransactions.

TABLE 7 Example VBAN parameters. Name Example Allowed transaction typesOnly allow ACH and wire transfer Allowed receiving entities Only allowACME Co. to submit transactions Maximum transaction amount Allowtransactions up to $100 Maximum monthly Allow transactions up to $500transaction velocity per month

In particular embodiments, the one or more parameters of the transactionresource configuration may comprise one or more of an identifierassociated with the receiving entity, an identifier associated with aplurality of receiving entities, a category of receiving entities, or ageographic identifier associated with the receiving entity. As anexample and not by way of limitation, the identifier associated with thereceiving entity may correspond to an allowed receiving entity (e.g., aspecific merchant). As another example and not by way of limitation, thecategory of receiving entities may indicate the merchant type, e.g.,restaurant, retailer, and beauty, etc. As yet another example and not byway of limitation, the geographic identifier associated with thereceiving entity may indicate a geographic location of the receivingentity. In particular embodiments, the geographic identifier may bebased on a postal code, a street address, a state, a region, or acountry. As an example and not by way of limitation, the geographicidentifier for a country may be based on country name, country code, orcountry abbreviation.

In particular embodiments, the one or more parameters of the transactionresource configuration may comprise one or more of a specified number ofauthorized transactions, a specified quantity of resources authorizedfor a single transaction, or a specified total quantity of resourcesauthorized for a plurality of transactions. As an example and not by wayof limitation, the specified number of authorized transactions mayindicate a number of allowed transactions for a specific allowedreceiving entity, e.g., single-use, multi-use, or unlimited use. Inparticular embodiments, the specified number of authorized transactionsmay be the number of transactions authorized for a specified period oftime, e.g., a day, a week, or a month. As another example and not by wayof limitation, the specified quantity of resources authorized for asingle transaction may indicate a spending limit, e.g., 1000 US dollarsfor a single transaction. As yet another example and not by way oflimitation, the specified total quantity of resources authorized for aplurality of transactions may indicate a periodic spending limit (e.g.,50,000 US dollars for a month) for a VBAN within a month.

In particular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration may begenerated based on a customized transaction schema associated with apayment processor. As an example and not by way of limitation, thepayment processor may be an enterprise client of the receiver processor140. The payment processor may be associated with the account processor120 and may issue VBANs and cards associated with VBANs to accountholders 105. In particular embodiments, the customized transactionschema may be generated based on one or more customized schemaparameters received from the payment processor.

In particular embodiments, the transfer of resources may comprise apayment to the receiving entity by the user. Accordingly, the one ormore parameters may comprise one or more of a type of payment, a type ofcurrency, or a type of transaction. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the type of payment may include ACH, interchange, etc. Asanother example and not by way of limitation, the type of currency maybe US dollars, Euros, Japanese Yen, or a type of cryptocurrency. Asanother example and not by way of limitation, the type of transactionsmay include cash, non-cash, or credit.

In particular embodiments, one or more of the parameters of thetransaction resource configuration may be specified by the user. As anexample and not by way of limitation, the user (e.g., payer 105 or payerprocessor 120) may provide the parameters to the receiver processor 140,e.g., via the API 140 a. In particular embodiments, one or more of theparameters of the transaction resource configuration may be defaultparameters specified by a processing entity associated with the VBAN. Asan example and not by way of limitation, the receiver processor 140 maybe a processing entity and may specify default parameters for VBANs. Asanother example and not by way of limitation, the account processor 120may be a processing entity and may specify default parameters for VBANs.In particular embodiments, one or more of the parameters of thetransaction resource configuration may be specified by a paymentprocessor associated with the external resource account, e.g., via theAPI 140 a. As an example and not by way of limitation, a receiverinstitution 145 may specify one or more of the parameters of thetransaction resource configuration to the receiver processor 140.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may determine,based on one or more machine-learning models trained on historicaltransaction data, one or more of the parameters of the transactionresource configuration. Such machine-learning models may be able todetermine and update the parameters responsive to each request fortransaction authorization or account generation. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may dynamically update theparameters based on various factors. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the receiver processor 140 may update, based on contextualdata (e.g., location or time) associated with one or more transactionsassociated with the VBAN, one or more of the parameters of thetransaction resource configuration. As another example and not by way oflimitation, updating the parameters may be based on requests from theaccount processor 120 and/or transaction data associated with the VBAN.

FIG. 5 illustrates an example decoupling of routable account credentialsfrom a stored value balance. As illustrated in FIG. 5 , the stored valuebalance 510 may comprise 5,000 US dollars, 3,000 Canadian dollars, and100,000 Japanese yen. In particular embodiments, the stored valuebalance 510 may be shielded from entities involved in a transaction(e.g., merchants, public payment networks 135, and clearing houses 520)by the VBANs 530. In particular embodiments, VBANs 530 may providepublicly routable account credentials that may be used to send andreceive transactions over existing payment networks 135. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, there may be three VBANs 530 associatedwith the stored value balance 510. The VBANs 530 may have presetparameters based on, for example, allowed receiving entities, allowedpayment limits, allowed currencies, and allowed maximum spending limitsover a specified period of time (e.g., a month). As an example and notby way of limitation, the allowed receiving entities for the first VBAN530 a may comprise ACME CO; the allowed payments for the first VBAN 530a may comprise ACH; the allowed currencies for the first VBAN 530 a maycomprise US dollars; and the max spend per month for the first VBAN 530a may be 1,000 US dollars. As another example, the allowed receivingentities for the second VBAN 530 b may comprise Stark Industries; theallowed payments for the second VBAN 530 b may comprise wire transfer;the allowed currencies for the second VBAN 530 b may comprise US dollarsand Canadian dollars; and the max spend per month for the second VBAN530 b may be 5,000 US dollars (or equivalent Canadian dollars). As yetanother example, the allowed receiving entities for the third VBAN 530 cmay comprise Globex and Tyrell Corp; the allowed payments for the thirdVBAN 530 c may comprise wire transfer and ACH; the allowed currenciesfor the third VBAN 530 c may comprise US dollars and Japanese yen; andthe max spend per month for the third VBAN 530 c may be 50,000 USdollars (or equivalent Japanese yen). Each of the VBANs 530 may maintainzero balance. Each of the VBANs 530 may draw from the stored valuebalance 510 if the payment conforms to the corresponding VBAN's 530parameters or the account holder 105 or account processor 120 associatedwith the corresponding VBAN 530 provides explicit authorization.

FIG. 6 illustrates an example flow diagram 600 of processing atransaction authorization request on a VBAN. In particular embodiments,the receiver processor 140 may receive a transaction authorizationrequest for a payment to a receiving entity from a user. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the transaction authorization request maycomprise a payment transaction request via ACH, wire transfer, etc. Thetransaction authorization request may be received via an applicationprogramming interface (API) 140 a. As illustrated in FIG. 6 , payer 105may initiate a transaction authorization request for a payment 605,which may be transmitted to the account processor server 120 a. Theaccount processor server 120 a may generate an API call for transactionauthorization 610 via the receiver processor API 140 a.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor API 140 a may send thepayment metadata 615 associated with the transaction request to thereceiver processor server 140 b. The receiver processor server 140 b maythen verify payment metadata 620 in response to determining the paymenttransaction request should be verified. As a result, the embodimentsdisclosed herein may have a technical advantage of ensuring that eachapproved transaction conforms to specific parameters applicable to thattransaction. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server140 b may verify payment metadata by processing the metadata associatedwith the payment transaction request against the parameters associatedwith the VBAN. As an example and not by way of limitation, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may compare the payment metadata against theparameters of the VBAN. As an example and not by way of limitation,verifying payment metadata may comprise determining whether thereceiving entity is authenticated, e.g., based on a comparison betweenthe allowed receiving entity associated with the VBAN and the receivingentity. As another example and not by way of limitation, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may verify whether the transaction amount iswithin the pre-configured limits (e.g., per transaction amount, perreceiving entity monthly limit, etc.) based on a comparison between theallowed transaction amount associated with the VBAN and the transactionamount associated with the payment transaction request. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may compare therequested payment value against the available stored value balanceassociated with the VBAN to make sure that is sufficient for completingthe payment transaction. In particular embodiments, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may use one or more machine-learning models toverify payment metadata. As an example and not by way of limitation, themachine-learning models may be trained based on historical transactiondata. Such machine-learning models may be able to verify paymentmetadata responsive to each payment transaction. Utilizingmachine-learning models trained based on historical transaction data toverify metadata may be an effective solution for addressing thetechnical challenge of effectively verifying metadata associated with atransaction to a virtual bank account. The machine-learning models maybe configured to characterize and evaluate whether transactions shouldbe authorized.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b mayfurther use one or more machine-learning models, e.g., a risk model, toidentify fraudulent transactions that otherwise satisfy parameters of aVBAN, thereby achieving risk/fraud controls. The receiver processorserver 140 b may determine, based on a risk model for determiningwhether a transaction is fraudulent, a likelihood that the transactionauthorization request is fraudulent. The receiver processor server 140 bmay then transmit, based on the likelihood that the transactionauthorization request is fraudulent, a transaction authorizationresponse indicating that the transaction is not authorized. Inparticular embodiments, the likelihood that the transactionauthorization request is fraudulent may be determined based on one ormore patterns identified in metadata associated with one or moreprevious fraudulent transactions. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the risk model may search for transaction patterns thatindicate high-risk usage (credit or otherwise) or attempts to defraud.Utilizing a transaction risk model trained based on patterns identifiedin metadata of previous fraudulent transactions, in which the identifiedpatterns are correlated with high-risk usage or fraudulent transactionsor attempted transactions, may be an effective solution for addressingthe technical challenge of effective risk/fraud controls. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor server 140 b may reduce fraud orerroneous billing by declining the transaction. As a result, therisk/fraud control may be considered a firewall on top of the user'saccount with stored value balance. As a result, the embodimentsdisclosed herein may have a technical advantage of the receiverprocessor 140 implementing risk/fraud controls to shield users againstfraud by using a transaction risk model to identify fraudulenttransactions that otherwise satisfy parameters of a VBAN.

If the verification is successful, the receiver processor 140 may postthe transaction 625 using the VBAN. In particular embodiments, thereceiver institution server 145 a may be uninvolved during the processof verifying payment metadata 620 and posting transaction 625. In otherwords, the receiver processor server 140 b may bypass the receiverinstitution server 145 a. The account processor server 120 a may thenreceive, via the receiver processor API 140 a, a notification oftransaction approval 630. If the verification is failed, the receiverprocessor server 140 b may generate a request for payer approval 635.The receiver processor API 140 a may then generate a prompt fortransaction decision 640, which is directed to the account holder 105.The prompt may ask if they would like to approve the transaction for thepayment or reject the transaction for the payment. If account holder 105approves transaction 645, the receiver processor API 140 a may generatean approval message 650 accordingly. The receiver processor server 140 bmay then post the transaction 625 using the VBAN. If account holder 105rejects transaction or does not respond to the approval request within athreshold amount of time 655, the receiver processor API 140 a maygenerate a rejection message. Responsive to the rejection message 660,the receiver processor server 140 b may reject the transaction at 665.The receiver processor API 140 a may further send a notification oftransaction rejection 670 to the account processor server 120 a.

In particular embodiments, the VBANs may enable the receiver processor140 to provide cross selling or marketing by shifting the data flow ontoVBANs from card-based transactions. VBANs may be applied to a variety ofuse cases. One example use case may include enabling neobanks that don'talready have a card issuance system to issue virtual bank accounts totheir customers. Another example use case may be the service industry,where companies may have to deal with frequent transactions withdifferent receiving entities. For example, a food delivery company mayissue cards associated with VBANs to its delivering staff so that theycan use these cards to pay the restaurants when picking up food orders.Another example use case may include spending limit or expensemanagement platforms, where an administrator may conveniently controlthe spending limit or expenses via the VBANs issued to differentemployees. Another example use case may be niche industries. Forexample, a company handling car warranties or claims may issue itscustomers VBANs so that they can easily submit claims via these VBANs.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may storereal-time transaction data associated with transactions in a set offirst transaction entries. The set of first transaction entries mayadditionally comprise real-time transaction data associated with one ormore additional transactions for a specified time period (e.g., lastweek or last month). The receiver processor 140 may then receive, fromthe external server, one or more network reporting files comprisinghistorical transaction data associated with the transaction and the oneor more additional transactions for the specified time period. Inparticular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may identify, fromthe set of first transaction entries and a set of second transactionentries derived from the historical transaction data, one or moreidentical pairs of a first transaction entry and a second transactionentry. For each identical pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction entry may be excluded from a remaining set of firsttransaction entries and a remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. The receiver processor 140 may then identify, for each ofone or more matching cycles, from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries, one or morematching pairs of a first transaction entry and a second transactionentry. In particular embodiments, each matching pair may be identifiedbased on a determination that a confidence metric for the matching pairis greater than a confidence threshold associated with the matchingcycle. For each matching pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction may be excluded from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. The receiver processor 140 may further analyze, subsequentto the one or more matching cycles, the remaining set of firsttransaction entries and the remaining set of second transaction entriesto identify a set of incongruous transaction entries and determine oneor more remediations for one or more of the incongruous transactionentries.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example method 700 for processing VBAN basedtransaction authorization requests. The method may begin at step 710,where the receiver processor 140 may receive, from an external server, atransaction authorization request to authorize a transaction associatedwith a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from a user, whereinthe transaction authorization request is received via an applicationprogramming interface (API 140 a), and wherein the transfer of resourcescomprises a payment to the receiving entity by the user. At step 720,the receiver processor 140 may retrieve, from a VBAN database, a VBANcomprising a transaction resource configuration for transactionsassociated with the receiving entity and the user, wherein thetransaction resource configuration is decoupled from an externalresource account associated with the user and the VBAN, wherein thetransaction resource configuration comprises a stored value balanceassociated with the VBAN, wherein the transaction resource configurationis configured to access a stored value balance of a quantity ofavailable resources in the external resource account, wherein theexternal resource account is further associated with a financialinterchange network or an automated clearing house, and wherein one ormore additional VBANs are associated with the external resource account.At step 730, the receiver processor 140 may determine whether one ormore parameters of the transaction resource configuration are satisfiedbased on metadata associated with the transaction authorization request,wherein the one or more parameters of the transaction resourceconfiguration comprise one or more of a type of payment, a type ofcurrency, a type of transaction, an identifier associated with thereceiving entity, an identifier associated with a plurality of receivingentities, a category of receiving entities, a geographic identifierassociated with the receiving entity, a specified quantity of resourcesauthorized for a single transaction, a specified total quantity ofresources authorized for a plurality of transactions, or a specifiednumber of authorized transactions being the number of transactionsauthorized for a specified period of time, wherein one or more of theparameters of the transaction resource configuration are specified bythe user or a payment processor associated with the external resourceaccount, and wherein one or more of the parameters of the transactionresource configuration are default parameters specified by a processingentity associated with the VBAN. At step 740, the receiver processor 140may transmit, to the external server, responsive to determining whetherthe one or more parameters of the transaction resource configuration aresatisfied, a transaction authorization response indicating whether thetransaction is authorized, wherein the transaction being authorizedcauses a stored value balance associated with the external resourceaccount to be reduced based on the transfer of resources associated withthe transaction. At step 750, the receiver processor 140 may update,based on contextual data associated with one or more transactionsassociated with the VBAN, one or more of the parameters of thetransaction resource configuration. Particular embodiments may repeatone or more steps of the method of FIG. 7 , where appropriate. Althoughthis disclosure describes and illustrates particular steps of the methodof FIG. 7 as occurring in a particular order, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable steps of the method of FIG. 7 occurring in anysuitable order. Moreover, although this disclosure describes andillustrates an example method for processing VBAN based transactionauthorization requests including the particular steps of the method ofFIG. 7 , this disclosure contemplates any suitable method for processingVBAN based transaction authorization requests including any suitablesteps, which may include all, some, or none of the steps of the methodof FIG. 7 , where appropriate. Furthermore, although this disclosuredescribes and illustrates particular components, devices, or systemscarrying out particular steps of the method of FIG. 7 , this disclosurecontemplates any suitable combination of any suitable components,devices, or systems carrying out any suitable steps of the method ofFIG. 7 .

Dynamic Authorization for Virtual Bank Account Verification Failures

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may prompt a userassociated with a transaction authorization request (e.g., a paymentreceiver) to authorize a transaction (e.g., payment) request responsiveto a verification failure of the transaction request. For example, theverification failure may be based on one or more authorizationparameters of a transaction resource configuration for a VBAN. Theverification failure may be determined based on an analysis of themetadata associated with the transaction authorization request.Correspondingly, the receiver processor 140 may send a real-time prompt(e.g., a text, a voice message, an automatic phone call, an email, etc.)to the user to authorize the transaction request. In this way, thereceiver processor 140 may prevent authentic and legitimate transactionrequests from being rejected, while users may still benefit from theprotections and efficiencies provided by the VBANs. Although thisdisclosure describes providing particular authorizations for particularverification failures in particular manners, this disclosurecontemplates providing any suitable authorizations for any suitableverification failures in any suitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may receive, froman external server, a transaction authorization request to authorize atransaction associated with a transfer of resources to a receivingentity from a user. The receiver processor 140 may then retrieve, from aVBAN database, a transaction resource configuration of a VBAN associatedwith the receiving entity and the user. In particular embodiments, thereceiver processor 140 may create a new VBAN and a transaction resourceconfiguration for the newly created VBAN. In particular embodiments, thetransaction resource configuration may be decoupled from an externalresource account associated with the user and the VBAN. The receiverprocessor 140 may determine that one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are not satisfied based on metadataassociated with the transaction authorization request. The receiverprocessor 140 may further transmit, to a client device associated withthe user, instructions for presenting a notification indicating atransaction authorization failure. In particular embodiments, thenotification may comprise an interactive prompt operable for receivingan input indicating whether the transaction authorization request shouldbe authorized. The receiver processor 140 may transmit, to the externalserver, responsive to receiving the input from the client deviceassociated with the user, a transaction authorization responseindicating whether the transaction is authorized. In particularembodiments, the transaction being authorized may cause a stored valuebalance associated with the external resource account to be reducedbased on the transfer of resources associated with the transaction.

As previously described in FIG. 6 , the receiver processor 140 mayreceive a transaction authorization request to authorize a transactionassociated with a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from auser at step 610. The transaction authorization request may be receivedvia an application programming interface (API 140 a).

In particular embodiments, the one or more parameters of the transactionresource configuration may comprise one or more of an identifierassociated with the receiving entity, a category of entities associatedwith the receiving entity, a geographic identifier associated with thereceiving entity, a digital identifier associated with the receivingentity, a specified number of authorized transactions, a specifiedquantity of resources authorized for each transaction, or a specifiedtotal quantity of resources authorized for a plurality of transactions.As an example and not by way of limitation, the identifier associatedwith the receiving entity may correspond to an allowed receiving entity.As another example and not by way of limitation, the category ofentities may indicate the merchant type, e.g., restaurant, retailer, andbeauty, etc. As yet another example and not by way of limitation, thegeographic identifier associated with the receiving entity may indicatethe location. In particular embodiments, the geographic identifier maybe based on postal code, detailed street address, country. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the geographic identifier for a countrymay be based on country name, country code, or country abbreviation. Asyet another example and not by way of limitation, the digital identifierassociated with the receiving entity may be a number or a code. As yetanother example and not by way of limitation, the specified number ofauthorized transactions may indicate, for a specific allowed receivingentity, how many times the VBAN could be used in authorizedtransactions, e.g., single-use, multi-use, or unlimited-use. Inparticular embodiments, the specified number of authorized transactionsmay be the number of transactions authorized for a specified period oftime, e.g., a day, a week, or a month. As yet another example and not byway of limitation, the specified quantity of resources authorized foreach transaction may indicate a spending limit, e.g., 1000 US dollarsfor each transaction. As yet another example and not by way oflimitation, the specified total quantity of resources authorized for aplurality of transactions may indicate a periodic spending limit (e.g.,50,000 US dollars for a month) for VBAN transactions within a month.

In particular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration may begenerated based on a customized transaction schema associated with apayment processor. As an example and not by way of limitation, thepayment processor may be an enterprise client of the receiver processor140. The payment processor may be associated with the account processor120 and may issue VBANs and cards associated with VBANs to accountholders 105. In particular embodiments, the customized transactionschema may be generated based on one or more customized schemaparameters received from the payment processor.

In particular embodiments, the transfer of resources may comprise apayment to the receiving entity by the user. Accordingly, the one ormore parameters may comprise one or more of a type of payment, a type ofcurrency, or a type of transaction. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the type of payment may include ACH, interchange, etc. Asanother example and not by way of limitation, the type of currency maybe US dollars, Euros, or Japanese Yen. As another example and not by wayof limitation, the type of transactions may include cash, non-cash, orcredit.

During the payment metadata verification at step 620, the receiverprocessor 140 may determine that one or more of the verificationconditions are not satisfied. The receiver processor 140 may furtherdetermine, based on the determination that one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are not satisfied, that thetransaction authorization request may require one or more explicitauthorizations to be authorized. In alternative embodiments, thereceiver processor 140 may determine, based on a risk model fordetermining whether a transaction is fraudulent, a likelihood that thetransaction authorization request is fraudulent. The likelihood that thetransaction authorization request is fraudulent may be determined basedon one or more patterns identified in metadata associated with one ormore previous fraudulent transactions. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the risk model may search for transaction patterns thatindicate high-risk usage (credit or otherwise) or attempts to defraud.Accordingly, the instructions for presenting a notification indicatingthe transaction authorization failure may be transmitted based on thelikelihood that the transaction authorization request is fraudulent.

In particular embodiments, the one or more explicit authorizations maycomprise an explicit authorization by the user. As an example and not byway of limitation, an unsatisfied verification condition may be anunverified merchant (e.g., a merchant who may have changed its name),and the receiver processor 140 may determine to prompt a user forexplicit authorization of a payment request from the receiving entity.In particular embodiments, the one or more explicit authorizations maycomprise an explicit authorization by a processing entity associatedwith the VBAN. As an example and not by way of limitation, the accountprocessor 120 may be a processing entity and provide the explicitauthorization.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may push atransaction failure notification to a device of the user, asking forexplicit authorization. As an example and not by way of limitation, atstep 640 in FIG. 6 , the receiver processor 140 may prompt the user ifthey would like to approve the transaction. In particular embodiments,the notification may comprise one or more of a text message, a voicemessage, a notification within an application, an automated phone call,or an electronic mail.

In particular embodiments, the interactive prompt comprised in thenotification may be operable for receiving an input indicating whetherthe transaction authorization request should be authorized. If the inputspecifies the transaction authorization request should be authorized,the type of explicit authorization may be considered a single exception.With single exception, the receiver processor 140 may only authorize thecurrent transaction request. In particular embodiments, the interactiveprompt may be further operable for receiving an input indicating whetherone or more future transaction authorization requests associated withthe transaction authorization request should be approved. In oneembodiment, the input may specify a number (e.g., three) of futuretransaction authorization requests that should be approved. In anotherembodiment, the input may specify a period of time (e.g., one week)associated with the future transaction authorization requests thatshould be approved. For both these embodiments, the type of explicitauthorization may be considered limited exceptions. With limitedexceptions, the receiver processor 140 may authorize the specifiednumber of future transaction requests or the future transaction requestswithin the specified period of time. In particular embodiment, the inputmay specify that all future transaction authorization requests should beapproved, for which the receiver processor 140 may authorize all futuretransaction requests. As a result, the embodiments disclosed herein mayhave a technical advantage of preventing authentic and legitimatetransaction requests from being rejected while still enabling users tobenefit from the protections and efficiencies provided by the VBANs.

In particular embodiments, the type of the interactive prompt may becustomized. As an example and not by way of limitation, the receiverprocessor 140 may use one or more machine-learning models to customizethe type of the interactive prompt based on prior responses from theuser. As an example and not by way of limitation, if the prior responsesfrom the user were always approving the transaction requests just foronce, the machine-learning models trained based on these responses mayhelp the receiver processor 140 determine to prompt the user to onlyapprove the transaction request for once or reject it.

In particular embodiments, the interactive prompt may be customizedbased on the metadata associated with the transaction authorizationrequest. As an example and not by way of limitation, the metadata maycomprise the total amount of the transaction, the time of thetransaction, or the location of the receiving entity. For instance, ifthe total amount is smaller than a threshold amount, e.g., 500 USdollars, the receiver processor 140 may push the interactive prompt tothe user. But if the total amount is larger than the threshold amount,the issuer processor may not push the interactive prompt but justdecline the transaction request. As another example, if the time of thetransaction is between 10 pm and 7 am, the receiver processor 140 maynot push the interactive prompt but just decline the transactionrequest. But if the time is not between 10 pm and 7 am, the receiverprocessor 140 may push the interactive prompt to the user. As yetanother example, if the location of the receiving entity is within thecountry where the user is located at, the receiver processor 140 maypush the interactive prompt to the user. But if the location is adifferent country, the issuer processor may not push the interactiveprompt but just decline the transaction request.

In particular embodiments, the interactive prompt may be furthercustomized based on metadata associated with one or more historicaltransactions associated with the user. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the receiver processor 140 may use one or moremachine-learning models to selectively push the interactive prompt tothe user. The machine-learning models may be trained based on historicaltransactions associated with the user. As an example and not by way oflimitation, if the historical transactions were all based on US dollars,the machine-learning models trained based on them may help the receiverprocessor 140 determine to prompt the user when a transaction request issuddenly based on Canadian dollars. As another example and not by way oflimitation, the machine-learning models may be trained based on otherpayment receivers' prior responses to various prompts forauthorizations. For example, other payment receivers' prior responsesmay comprise rejections for a particular user. Therefore, themachine-learning models trained based on these responses may help thereceiver processor 140 determine not to prompt the user but decline thetransaction request instead. Customizing the interactive prompt based onprior responses and metadata associated with the current transaction andhistorical transactions may be an effective solution for addressing thetechnical challenge of customizing the interactive prompt for receivinga user's response as these data can reflect the user's preferences andthe user's behavior patterns.

In particular embodiments, if the user affirmatively rejects thetransaction, the receiver processor 140 may reject the transactionauthorization request. If the user explicitly approves the transaction(either temporarily or ongoing for that receiving entity), the receiverprocessor 140 may post the transaction. In particular embodiments, ifthe user is non-responsive after a threshold amount of time (e.g., 30minutes), the receiver processor 140 may reject the transactionauthorization request. Specifically, the receiver processor 140 maydetermine a period of time between transmitting the instructions forpresenting the notification and receiving the input from the clientdevice. The receiver processor 140 may then determine that thetransaction should not be authorized based on the period of timeexceeding a threshold period of time.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may storereal-time transaction data associated with the transaction in a set offirst transaction entries. The set of first transaction entries mayadditionally comprise real-time transaction data associated with one ormore additional transactions for a specified time period (e.g., lastweek or last month). The receiver processor 140 may then receive, fromthe external server, one or more network reporting files comprisinghistorical transaction data associated with the transaction and the oneor more additional transactions for the specified time period. Inparticular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may identify, fromthe set of first transaction entries and a set of second transactionentries derived from the historical transaction data, one or moreidentical pairs of a first transaction entry and a second transactionentry. For each identical pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction entry may be excluded from a remaining set of firsttransaction entries and a remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. The receiver processor 140 may then identify, for each ofone or more matching cycles, from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries, one or morematching pairs of a first transaction entry and a second transactionentry. In particular embodiments, each matching pair may be identifiedbased on a determination that a confidence metric for the matching pairis greater than a confidence threshold associated with the matchingcycle. For each matching pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction may be excluded from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. The receiver processor 140 may further analyze, subsequentto the one or more matching cycles, the remaining set of firsttransaction entries and the remaining set of second transaction entriesto identify a set of incongruous transaction entries and determine oneor more remediations for one or more of the incongruous transactionentries.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example transaction notification 810. In thisexample, the notification 810 may be an email. The notification 810 maycomprise a description 820 of a transaction authorization request andthe status of the transaction authorization request. As an example andnot by way of limitation, the description 820 may be “you've received anACH debit for $1,500 from unverified vendor to your virtual bank account(VBAN) . . . 1234. Unverified vendor has not been approved for thisVBAN.” The notification 810 may further prompt the user if they wouldlike to approve the transaction. As an example and not by way oflimitation, there may be two options. One option may be “approvetransaction (one time except). 830” If the user selects this option, thereceiver processor 140 may approve the transaction authorization requestjust for this time. In the future if there is another transactionauthorization request from this unverified vendor, the receiverprocessor 140 may still prompt the user to approve or reject thetransaction. Another option may be “approve transaction and all futuretransactions on VBAN . . . 1234 form unverified provider. 840” If theuser selects this option, the receiver processor 140 may approve thetransaction and any future transactions on VBAN . . . 1234 form thisunverified provider without prompting the user anymore.

FIG. 9 illustrates an example method 900 for dynamic authorization forvirtual bank account verification failures. The method may begin at step910, where the receiver processor 140 may receive, from an externalserver, a transaction authorization request to authorize a transactionassociated with a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from auser, wherein the transaction authorization request is received via anapplication programming interface (API 140 a), and wherein the transferof resources comprises a payment to the receiving entity by the user. Atstep 920, the receiver processor 140 may retrieve, from a VBAN database,a transaction resource configuration of a VBAN associated with thereceiving entity and the user, wherein the transaction resourceconfiguration is decoupled from an external resource account associatedwith the user and the VBAN. At step 930, the receiver processor 140 maydetermine that one or more parameters of the transaction resourceconfiguration are not satisfied based on metadata associated with thetransaction authorization request, wherein the one or more parameterscomprise one or more of a type of payment, a type of currency, a type oftransaction, an identifier associated with the receiving entity, acategory of entities associated with the receiving entity, a geographicidentifier associated with the receiving entity, a digital identifierassociated with the receiving entity, a specified number of authorizedtransactions, a specified quantity of resources authorized for eachtransaction, or a specified total quantity of resources authorized for aplurality of transactions. At step 940, the receiver processor 140 maydetermine, based on the determination that one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are not satisfied, that thetransaction authorization request requires one or more explicitauthorizations to be authorized, wherein the one or more explicitauthorizations comprise one or more of an explicit authorization by theuser, an explicit authorization by a payment processor associated withthe external resource account, or an explicit authorization by aprocessing entity associated with the VBAN. At step 950, the receiverprocessor 140 may transmit, to a client device associated with the user,instructions for presenting a notification indicating a transactionauthorization failure, wherein the notification comprises an interactiveprompt operable for receiving an input indicating whether thetransaction authorization request should be authorized and/or whetherone or more future transaction authorization requests associated withthe transaction authorization request should be approved, wherein thenotification comprises one or more of a text message, a voice message, anotification within an application, an automated phone call, or anelectronic mail, wherein the interactive prompt is customized based onone or more of the metadata associated with the transactionauthorization request or metadata associated with one or more historicaltransactions associated with the user, wherein the input specifies oneor more of a number of future transaction authorization requests thatshould be approved, a period of time associated with the futuretransaction authorization requests that should be approved, or that allfuture transaction authorization requests should be approved. At step960, the receiver processor 140 may transmit, to the external server,responsive to receiving the input from the client device associated withthe user, a transaction authorization response indicating whether thetransaction is authorized, wherein the transaction being authorizedcauses a stored value balance associated with the external resourceaccount to be reduced based on the transfer of resources associated withthe transaction. Particular embodiments may repeat one or more steps ofthe method of FIG. 9 , where appropriate. Although this disclosuredescribes and illustrates particular steps of the method of FIG. 9 asoccurring in a particular order, this disclosure contemplates anysuitable steps of the method of FIG. 9 occurring in any suitable order.Moreover, although this disclosure describes and illustrates an examplemethod for dynamic authorization for VBAN verification failuresincluding the particular steps of the method of FIG. 9 , this disclosurecontemplates any suitable method for dynamic authorization for VBANverification failures including any suitable steps, which may includeall, some, or none of the steps of the method of FIG. 9 , whereappropriate. Furthermore, although this disclosure describes andillustrates particular components, devices, or systems carrying outparticular steps of the method of FIG. 9 , this disclosure contemplatesany suitable combination of any suitable components, devices, or systemscarrying out any suitable steps of the method of FIG. 9 .

Serverless Authorization Stream Access (ASA)

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may enable users(e.g., enterprise clients associated with the account processors 120) toconfigure customized transaction authorization schema within the systemof the receiver processor 140 via an assisted code deployment schema.Users may deploy code snippets with desired parameters, which may thenbe integrated and collocated within the working environment of thereceiver processor 140 for handling authorization stream access (ASA).By doing so, users may quickly launch authorization systems that utilizethe ASA transaction schema and backend infrastructure provided by thereceiver processor 140 to avoid undesirable latency experiences overpublic networks, ensure compliance with payment card industry (PCI)security standards, and eliminate the need to build out authorizationschema from the ground up. In particular embodiments, users may havetheir customized transaction schema implemented without using their ownservers. However, in particular embodiments, users may have the abilityto utilize their own servers for handling particular aspects oftransaction authorizations. Although this disclosure describescustomizing particular authorization schemas by particular processors ina particular manner, this disclosure contemplates customizing anysuitable authorization schema by any suitable processor in any suitablemanner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may receive, froman external server associated with a payment processor, one or morecustomized schema parameters associated with a request for a customizedtransaction schema associated with the payment processor. The receiverprocessor 140 may then retrieve, from a database associated with thereceiver processor 140 platform, a pre-configured transaction schemacomprising a plurality of pre-configured schema parameters. The receiverprocessor 140 may further generate the customized transaction schemaassociated with the payment processor by integrating the customizedschema parameters into the pre-configured transaction schema. Inparticular embodiments, the one or more servers associated with thereceiver processor 140 platform may be configured to generate, based onthe customized transaction schema, one or more transaction resourceconfigurations. Each transaction resource configuration may beconfigured for processing one or more transaction authorization requeststo authorize one or more respective transactions associated with atransfer of resources to a receiving entity from a user associated withthe payment processor. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor140 may store, in the database associated with the receiver processor140 platform, the customized transaction schema associated with thepayment processor.

In particular embodiments, the API 140 a of the receiver processor 140may provide authorization stream access (ASA). The authorization streamaccess may provide users the ability to make customized transactionapproval decisions through an HTTP interface to the ISO 8583 messagestream. ASA requests may be delivered as an HTTP POST duringauthorization. The ASA request body may adhere to the transaction schemaof the API 140 a, with some additional fields added for use indecisioning. A response may be sent with HTTP response code 200 and theapproval decision in the response body. This response may be convertedby the receiver processor 140 back into ISO-8583 format and forwarded tothe network. However, deploying customized authorization logic may betime consuming for users for the following reasons. Firstly, users mayneed to register a webhook endpoint with the receiver processor 140.Secondly, users may need to build an application on their end thatlistens for events from the receiver processor 140. Thirdly, anysophisticated schema such as rules-based or that requires history mayincrease the complexity even more. All in all, it may take a userseveral weeks if not months to deploy their own authorization schema.Furthermore, having to send a transaction message to the accountprocessor 120 over the public communication network 110 e may be fraughtwith complications including added latency to transactions (e.g., uphundreds of milliseconds round trip) and compliance complexity (e.g.,users may need to be PCI compliant).

To gain lower latency for better user experience and faster deploy timesby deploying code snippets from the servers 140 b of the receiverprocessor 140, the receiver processor 140 may provide the assisted codedeployment schema to enable users to configure customized transactionauthorization schema. Serverless authorization stream access maysimplify it for the users to only have to provide business schemainstead of setting up infrastructure to receive and respond to themessage from the receiver processor 140. In addition, the receiverprocessor 140 may provide libraries and tools to dynamically authorizetransaction requests using machine-learning models based on current andhistorical transaction data. As a result, the embodiments disclosedherein may have a technical advantage of eliminating the need to buildout authorization schema from the ground up as users may utilize theauthorization stream access schema and backend infrastructure providedby the receiver processor 140 to deploy customized transaction schema.

In particular embodiments, the one or more customized schema parametersmay be received via an application programming interface (API) 140 aassociated with the receiver processor 140 platform. To use theauthorization stream access, a user (e.g., a developer associated withthe payment processor) may sign into a dashboard via the API 140 a. Theuser may deploy functions that handle authorization stream access in theworking environment of the receiver processor 140. The deployedfunctions may be based on the customized schema parameters. Inparticular embodiments, the customized schema parameters may compriseone or more verification requirements based on transaction metadataassociated with each transaction authorization request. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the transaction metadata may comprise oneor more of a specified type of currency, a specified transactionnetwork, a specified type of transaction, an identifier associated witha transaction, a specified number of authorized transactions, aspecified quantity of resources authorized for a single transaction, ora specified total quantity of resources authorized for a plurality oftransactions. Accordingly, the verification requirements may compriseone or more of a requirement for the type of currency, a requirement forthe transaction network (e.g., Visa or MasterCard), a requirement forthe type of transaction (e.g., cash or credit), a requirement for theidentifier (e.g., merchant ID), a requirement for the number ofauthorized transactions, a requirement for the quantity of resourcesauthorized for a single transaction (e.g., 1000 US dollars), arequirement for the total quantity of resources authorized for a numberof transactions (e.g., total amount of 5000 US dollars for 10transactions).

In particular embodiments, the customized schema parameters may compriseone or more verification requirements based on location metadataassociated with each transaction authorization request. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the location metadata may be associatedwith one or more of a location of a user, a location of a receivingentity, or a location of a transaction. Accordingly, the verificationrequirements may comprise one or more of a requirement for the locationof the user (e.g., in US only), a requirement for the location of areceiving entity (e.g., in North America only), a requirement for thelocation of the transaction (e.g., in the city where the user lives).The verification requirements may also require that the locations of theuser, receiving entity, and/or transaction are the same, e.g., a personis buying something in a physical store of a merchant. As anotherexample and not by way of limitation, the location metadata may compriseone or more of a geographic location, a geographic region, a country, aphysical address, or a postal code. Accordingly, the verificationrequirements may comprise one or more of a requirement for thegeographic location (e.g., in a particular municipal district), arequirement for the geographic region (e.g., in Europe only), arequirement for the country (e.g., in Canada only), a requirement forthe physical address (e.g., in ABC street), or a requirement for thepostal code.

In particular embodiments, the customized schema parameters may compriseone or more verification requirements based on entity metadataassociated with each transaction authorization request. The entitymetadata may be associated with one or more of a receiving entity (e.g.,a commerce entity 115), a user (e.g., an account holder 105), or apayment processor (e.g., an enterprise that issues accounts/cards toaccount holders 105). In particular embodiments, the entity metadataassociated with the receiving entity may comprise one or more of anidentifier associated with the receiving entity (e.g., a merchant ID), adigital address associated with the receiving entity (e.g., an IPaddress of an e-commerce merchant), an identifier associated with aplurality of receiving entities (e.g., a merchant ID of a corporationthat has multiple retailer stores), a category of receiving entities(e.g., restaurant or transportation), or a risk score associated withthe receiving entity (e.g., the risk score reflecting how likely thereceiving entity may be a scam).

In particular embodiments, the entity metadata associated with the usermay comprise one or more of a period of time the user has beenassociated with the payment processor, an age of a digital address(e.g., an IP address) associated with the user, a risk score associatedwith the user, an identifier associated with the user, or an identifierassociated with a plurality of users. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the user may be an employee of the payment processor and theperiod of time may reflect how long the employee has been employed bythe payment processor. As another example and not by way of limitation,the risk score may reflect how likely the user may be involved infraudulent transactions. In particular embodiments, the risk scoreassociated with the user may be based on a risk model for determining alikelihood that a transaction is fraudulent. The risk score associatedwith the user may be further based on historical risk scores associatedwith the user for a specified period of time.

Table 8 lists example parameters configured in the customizedtransaction schema for functions to be deployed. As an example and notby way of limitation, the user may deploy schema related to addressverification, merchant locking, country control, fraud risk heuristics(e.g., the payment networks 135 may pass a fraud score that the receiverprocessor 140 relays to the account processor 120 so that it may rejecta payment transaction request if the fraud score is above a thresholdscore and the transaction amount is above a threshold amount), otherbusiness schema arounds amounts, etc. In particular embodiments, theuser may deploy a schema that enables them to send back an approval ordecline message during the transaction flow. Upon receiving thefunctions input by the user, the receiver processor 140 may generateuser-specific customized transaction schema by incorporating the inputfunctions into the pre-configured transaction schema, e.g., a VBANimplementation.

TABLE 8 Example parameters configured in the customized transactionschema for functions to be deployed. acquirer fee Fee assessed by themerchant and paid for by the cardholder or account holder. May be zeroif no fee is assessed. Rebates may be transmitted as a negative value toindicate credited fees. amount Authorization amount of the transaction.This may change over time. authorization The base transaction amountplus the acquirer fee field. This may be the amount amount the accountprocessor 120 should authorize against unless the account processor 120is paying the acquirer fee on behalf of the cardholder. AVS Containsaddress validation (AVS) information entered by the payer to be verifiedby the account processor 120. card Debit or credit. May be based onVBAN. created Date and time when the transaction first occurred. eventsA list of all events that have modified this transaction. (issuing)funding A list of objects that describe how this transaction was funded,with the amount represented. A reference to the funding account for thecard hat made this transaction may appear here and the token may matchthe token for the funding account in the card field. If any promotionalcredit was used in paying for this transaction, its type may be PROMO.merchant The receiving entity. merchant The amount that the merchant mayreceive, denominated in merchant amount currency and in the smallestcurrency unit. Note the amount may include acquirer fee, similar toauthorization amount. It may be different from authorization amount ifthe merchant is taking payment in a different currency. merchant ISO4217 alpha 3 code for the currency of the transaction. currency POSPoint of sale. settled Amount of the transaction that has been settled.This may change over time. amount status AUTHORIZATION,FINANCIAL_AUTHORIZATION, and BALANCE_INQUIRY. It may indicate that thisrequest requires an ASA response body in HTTP 200 response.FINANCIAL_AUTHORIZATION may be a final single-message transaction withno subsequent clearing, BALANCE_INQUIRY may be a zero-fund authorizationthat should prompt a response with the appropriate balance. tokenGlobally unique identifier.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may provide, tothe account processor 120, access to one or more tools or librariesgenerated by the receiver processor 140 platform. The one or more of thetools or libraries may be configured to execute one or more operationsassociated with the customized transaction schema. In particularembodiments, the one or more operations may comprise one or more ofgenerating VBANs associated with users, linking external resourceaccounts to VBANs associated with users, generating reports associatedwith VBANs and transactions associated with VBANs, modifying anautomated processing of repeated transaction authorization requests, orapplying one or more risk models for determining a likelihood that atransaction is fraudulent. In particular embodiments, one or more of therisk models may be based on one or more machine-learning models trainedon historical transaction data. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the account processor 120 may leverage the tools and/orlibraries provided by the receiver processor 140 to implement a moresophisticated authorization schema. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the account processor 120 may check the transaction historyusing the tools and/or libraries. In particular embodiments, thereceiver processor 140 may provide tools and/or libraries for accountprocessors 120 in their ASA responder to call the APIs 140 a where thereceiver processor 140 may provide various information such as fraudrisk scores. Providing tools or libraries generated by the receiverprocessor 140 platform that can be easily accessed via the API 140 agenerated by, implemented by, and/or provided by an issuer processor 140may be an effective solution for addressing the technical challenge ofenabling users to effectively execute operations associated with thecustomized transaction schema and deploy more sophisticatedauthorization schema as these tools or libraries may be readilyconfigured for various operations and functions.

In particular embodiments, a user may deploy a schema that enumeratesvarious information associated with a transaction, comprising one ormore of point of sale (POS), POS type, method of entry, cardholderstatus, ASA response result, or AVS response result. Table 9 listsexample enumerations for point of sale. The POS type may comprise one ormore of ATM, authorization, coupon machine, dial terminal, ecommerce,electronic cash register (ECR), fuel machine, home terminal, magneticink character recognition (MICR), off premise, payment, PDA, phone,point, POS terminal, self-service, television, teller, travelers checkmachine, vending, or voice. The method of entry may comprise one or moreof auto entry, bar code, contactless, ecommerce, error keyed, errormagnetic stripe, ICC, key entered, magnetic stripe, manual, opticalcharacter recognition (OCR), secure cardless, or unspecified. Thecardholder status may comprise one or more of deferred billing,installment, mail order, not present, preauthorized, present,reoccurring, or telephone order. Table 10 lists example enumerations ofthe ASA response result. The AVS response result may comprise one ormore of fail, match, matched address only, or matched postal code only.

TABLE 9 Example enumerations for point of sale. terminal.attended Trueif a clerk is present at the sale. terminal.on_premise True if the salewas made at the place of business (v.s. mobile). terminal.operator Theperson that is designed to swipe the card, possible values: CARDHOLDER,CARD_ACCEPTOR, ADMINISTRATIVE. terminal.partial_ True if the terminal iscapable of partial approval. Partial approval_capable approval is whenpart of a transaction is approved and another payment must be used forthe remainder. Example scenario: A $40 transaction is attempted on aprepaid card with a $25 balance. If partial approval is enabled, $25 canbe authorized, at which point the POS will prompt the user for anadditional payment of $15. terminal.pin_capability Status of whether thePOS is able to accept PINs, possible values: CAPABLE, INOPERATIVE,NOT_CAPABLE, UNSPECIFIED. terminal.type POS type. entry_mode.card Cardstatus, possible values: PRESENT, NOT_PRESENT, PREAUTHORIZED.entry_mode.cardholder Cardholder status. entry_mode.pan Method of entryfor the PAN. entry_mode.pin_entered True if the PIN was entered.

TABLE 10 Enumerations of example ASA response results. Decline reasonDescription ACCOUNT_INACTIVE Same as CARD_PAUSED. AVS_INVALID Preventacquirers from approving the transaction despite incorrect AVS. Note:AVS response may be not required for this decline type. CARD_CLOSED Cardmay be permanently closed. Using CARD_CLOSED may result in subsequentauthorizations being declined on the ASA client’s behalf. CARD_PAUSEDCard may be not yet activated or in a paused state. INSUFFICIENT_FUNDSUser may have insufficient funds. Acquirers may retry the transaction ata later time. UNAUTHORIZED_MERCHANT May be used for restricted MCCs,countries, or transaction types (e.g., money transfer transactions).VELOCITY_EXCEEDED Transaction may have exceeded tissuer-set velocitylimits. Acquirers may retry the transaction at a later date.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may enable usersto incorporate context schema (e.g., cardholder address) for thecardholder account into the serverless authorization stream access. Thecontext schema may provide more context about the cardholder account sothat the account processor 120 may make authorization decisions outsideof just the transaction context. In particular embodiments, the contextschema may comprise data the user associated with the account processor120 wants to store with the receiver processor 140 so that they may lookup important authorization information for their business schema quicklywithout having to call their systems.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may receive atransaction authorization request to authorize a transaction associatedwith a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from a user. Thereceiver processor 140 may then retrieve, from a VBAN database, a VBANcomprising a transaction resource configuration for transactionsassociated with the receiving entity and the user. In particularembodiments, the issuer processor may create a new VBAN and atransaction resource configuration for the newly created VBAN. Inparticular embodiments, the transaction resource configuration may begenerated based on the customized transaction schema. The transactionresource configuration may be decoupled from an external resourceaccount associated with the user and the VBAN. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may then determine whether oneor more parameters of the transaction resource configuration aresatisfied based on metadata associated with the transactionauthorization request. The receiver processor 140 may further generate,responsive to determining whether the one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are satisfied, a transactionauthorization response indicating whether the transaction is authorized.In particular embodiments, the transaction being authorized may cause astored value balance associated with the external resource account to bereduced based on the transfer of resources associated with thetransaction.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may receive, froma third-party server, a transaction authorization request to authorize afirst transaction associated with a first user and a first receivingentity. As an example and not by way of limitation, the third-partyserver may be associated with a payment network 135. The first user maybe an account holder 105 and the first receiving entity may be acommerce entity 115. The receiver processor 140 may then determinewhether one or more authorization parameters of a transaction resourceconfiguration associated with the first entity are satisfied based onmetadata associated with the transaction authorization request. Thereceiver processor 140 may further transmit, to the third-party server,responsive to determining whether the one or more authorizationparameters of the transaction resource configuration are satisfied, atransaction authorization response indicating whether the transaction isauthorized.

In particular embodiments, the transaction authorization response mayfurther comprise one or more of a transaction token, a resource balancevalue of a VBAN associated with the first entity, an available resourcebalance value of a VBAN associated with the first entity, or a result ofone or more verification requirements based on one or more of thecustomized schema parameters. As an example and not by way oflimitation, the transaction token may be used to uniquely identify thetransaction. As another example and not by way of limitation, theresource balance value of the VBAN may be the balance value of a rootaccount, which may be both in monetary value. As yet another example andnot by way of limitation, the available resource balance value of theVBAN may be the total amount of US dollars. As yet another example andnot by way of limitation, the result of one or more verificationrequirements based on one or more of the customized schema parametersmay indicate whether these verification requirements are satisfied ornot.

In particular embodiments, the one or more verification requirements maybe associated with one or more of an account status of the VBANassociated with the first entity, an authorization status of the firstreceiving entity, or a frequency status of the first transaction basedon one or more second transactions associated with the first user over aspecified period of time. As an example and not by way of limitation,the account status may indicate whether the VBAN is active or frozen. Asanother example and not by way of limitation, the authorization statusmay indicate whether the first receiving entity is authorized. As yetanother example and not by way of limitation, the frequency status ofthe first transaction based on one or more second transactionsassociated with the first users over a specified period of time mayindicate how often transactions occur for the users entity over, e.g.,last month.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may provide aclient response to the receiver processor 140 after the customizedtransaction schema is applied to a transaction authorization request bythe receiver processor 140. As an example and not by way of limitation,the client response may comprise one or more of a result, a transactiontoken, an address verification result, or a balance. If the result is“approved”, it may indicate an acceptance of the authorization by theaccount processor 120. Any other results may cause the decline of theauthorization. In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 mayreturn “approved” with address verification (AVS) match indicator thatmay be evaluated by the originator processor 125. In particularembodiments, address verification (AVS) may check two pieces ofinformation including the postal code and the billing street address.Responding with AVS may be optional. If AVS is present and a response isnot received, the receiver processor 140 may return AVS validated. IfAVS attributes are not included in the authorization, any AVS responseresult may be ignored. In particular embodiments, the balance mayindicate respective available amount and settled amount values. ASAmessages may require a settled and available amount to be returned. Theamount may represent the balance held on the account/card. The availablebalance may represent the balance available for the account holder orcardholder to spend. This may be calculated as the settled amount minusany pending authorizations on the account/card. If no balance isreturned, the receiver processor 140 may return zero for bothattributes. These values may be used by commerce entities 115 forauthorization decisions as well as balance display at point of sale orATM. In particular embodiments, the response time, i.e., the requesttimeout, may be configurable per request, with a default of, e.g., 5seconds. Response before the timeout may not guarantee that theauthorization will succeed.

In particular embodiments, the account processor 120 may utilize theserverless authorization stream access to make non-transactionauthorization decisions. As an example and not by way of limitation, theaccount processor 120 may deploy schema to determine information ofaccount holder or cardholder such as number of years regarding fraudrisk, email address age, number of years as a customer, etc. Inparticular embodiments, the account processor 120 may implementnon-transactional decisions with or without the context schema.

FIG. 10 illustrates an example sequence diagram 1000 for processingtransaction authorization requests using customized transaction schema.In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may enable theuser to utilize the customized transaction schema to process atransaction authorization request with the added/modified functionalitythat was input by the user. As indicated in FIG. 10 , the paymentnetwork 135 may send a raw ISO message 1040 to an ISO-105103 server 1010of the receiver processor 140. In particular embodiments, the paymentnetwork 135 may bypass the issuing bank server 145 a when sending theraw ISO message 1040 to the ISO-105103 server 1010. The ISO-105103server 1010 may transform the raw ISO message 1040 and send atransformed ISO message 1050 to a core server 1020 of the receiverprocessor 140. Based on the transformed ISO message 1050, the coreserver 1020 may determine the event and context 1060 based on thecustomized transaction schema. The issuer processor API 140 a may thensend the event and context 1060 to an ASA worker 1030 of the accountprocessor 120. As an example and not by way of limitation, the ASAworker 1030 may reject the transaction authorization request based onthe event and context 1060. The ASA worker 1030 may then send arejection 1070 to the receiver API 140 a. The core server 1020 mayfurther receive, via the issuer processor API 140 a, the rejection 1070.The core server 1020 may return the rejection 1070 to the ISO-105103server 1010, which may further return the rejection 1070 to the paymentnetwork 135. In particular embodiments, the receiver institution server145 a may be not involved in any of the communication between thereceiver processor 140 and the account processor 120. In other words,the ASA worker 1030 may receive event and context 1060 and send therejection 1070 via the issuer processor API 140 a without anycommunication with the issuing bank server 145 a.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may access a setof first transaction entries comprising real-time transaction data. Eachfirst transaction entry may be associated with one of a plurality oftransactions for a specified time period. In particular embodiments, oneor more of the plurality of transactions may be authorized based on afirst transaction resource configuration generated based on a firstcustomized transaction schema. The receiver processor 140 may thenaccess one or more network reporting files comprising historicaltransaction data associated with one or more of the transactionsassociated with the real-time transaction data for the specified timeperiod in the set of first transaction entries. The receiver processor140 may then identify, from the set of first transaction entries and aset of second transaction entries derived from the historicaltransaction data, one or more identical pairs of a first transactionentry and a second transaction entry. In particular embodiments, foreach identical pair, the first transaction entry and second transactionentry may be excluded from a remaining set of first transaction entriesand a remaining set of second transaction entries, respectively. Thereceiver processor 140 may then identify, for each of one or morematching cycles, from the remaining set of first transaction entries andthe remaining set of second transaction entries, one or more matchingpairs of a first transaction entry and a second transaction entry. Inparticular embodiments, each matching pair may be identified based on adetermination that a confidence metric for the matching pair is greaterthan a confidence threshold associated with the matching cycle. For eachmatching pair, the first transaction entry and second transaction may beexcluded from the remaining set of first transaction entries and theremaining set of second transaction entries, respectively. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may further analyze, subsequentto the one or more matching cycles, the remaining set of firsttransaction entries and the remaining set of second transaction entriesto identify a set of incongruous transaction entries and determine oneor more remediations for one or more of the incongruous transactionentries.

FIG. 11 illustrates an example method 1100 for serverless authorizationstream access. The method may begin at step 1110, where the receiverprocessor 140 may receive, from an external server associated with apayment processor, one or more customized schema parameters associatedwith a request for a customized transaction schema associated with thepayment processor, wherein the customized schema parameters comprise oneor more verification requirements based on transaction metadataassociated with each transaction authorization request, the transactionmetadata comprising one or more of a specified type of currency, aspecified transaction network, a specified type of transaction, anidentifier associated with a transaction, a specified number ofauthorized transactions, a specified quantity of resources authorizedfor a single transaction, or a specified total quantity of resourcesauthorized for a plurality of transactions, wherein the customizedschema parameters comprise one or more verification requirements basedon location metadata associated with each transaction authorizationrequest, the location metadata being associated with one or more of alocation of a user, a location of a receiving entity, or a location of atransaction and comprising one or more of a geographic location, ageographic region, a country, a physical address, or a zip code, whereinthe customized schema parameters comprise one or more verificationrequirements based on entity metadata associated with each transactionauthorization request, the entity metadata being associated with one ormore of a receiving entity comprising one or more of an identifierassociated with the receiving entity, a digital address associated withthe receiving entity, an identifier associated with a plurality ofreceiving entities, a category of receiving entities, or a risk scoreassociated with the receiving entity, comprising one or more of a periodof time the user has been associated with the payment processor, an ageof a digital address associated with the user, a risk score associatedwith the user, an identifier associated with the user, or an identifierassociated with a plurality of users, or a payment processor, andwherein the one or more customized schema parameters are received via anapplication programming interface (API 140 a) associated with the issuerprocessor platform. At step 1120, the receiver processor 140 mayretrieve, from a database associated with the issuer processor platform,a pre-configured transaction schema comprising a plurality ofpre-configured schema parameters. At step 1130, the receiver processor140 may generate the customized transaction schema associated with thepayment processor by integrating the customized schema parameters intothe pre-configured transaction schema, wherein the one or more serversassociated with the issuer processor platform are configured togenerate, based on the customized transaction schema, one or moretransaction resource configurations, each transaction resourceconfiguration being configured for processing one or more transactionauthorization requests to authorize one or more respective transactionsassociated with a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from auser associated with the payment processor. At step 1140, the receiverprocessor 140 may store, in the database associated with the issuerprocessor platform, the customized transaction schema associated withthe payment processor. At step 1150, the receiver processor 140 mayprovide, to the external server associated with the payment processor,access to one or more tools or libraries generated by the issuerprocessor platform, wherein the one or more of the tools or librariesare configured to execute one or more operations associated with thecustomized transaction schema. Particular embodiments may repeat one ormore steps of the method of FIG. 11 , where appropriate. Although thisdisclosure describes and illustrates particular steps of the method ofFIG. 11 as occurring in a particular order, this disclosure contemplatesany suitable steps of the method of FIG. 11 occurring in any suitableorder. Moreover, although this disclosure describes and illustrates anexample method for serverless authorization stream access including theparticular steps of the method of FIG. 11 , this disclosure contemplatesany suitable method for serverless authorization stream access includingany suitable steps, which may include all, some, or none of the steps ofthe method of FIG. 11 , where appropriate. Furthermore, although thisdisclosure describes and illustrates particular components, devices, orsystems carrying out particular steps of the method of FIG. 11 , thisdisclosure contemplates any suitable combination of any suitablecomponents, devices, or systems carrying out any suitable steps of themethod of FIG. 11 .

Automatically Reconcile Partially Complete and Congruent FinancialRecords

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may reconcile datafrom multiple sources. The primary source may be the live data (e.g.,transaction data) being streamed in real-time, and the secondary sourcemay be the historical data (e.g., transaction data) aggregated andpresented in bulk at a future time. In particular embodiments, thesecondary source may serve as a form of ground-truth, taking precedenceover the primary source in cases of poor congruence and incompleteness.However, the secondary source may not be solely relied upon whenconducting business (e.g., processing transactions), as decisions mayneed to be made using the real-time data (e.g., the primary source) thatis immediately available. Due to the partial completeness and congruencyof the two data sources, reconciliation may be required to identify anyimproper decisions made using the real-time data and remediate properly.In particular embodiment, the receiver processor 140 may determinenon-congruent data entries across the two sources, business decisionsthat result from the originally improper entry from the primary source,and remediations that are necessary as a result of the final properentry from the secondary source. The receiver processor 140 may furthersubstantiate the original entry from the primary source with morecomplete information that is only available via the secondary source. Inparticular embodiments, the reconciliation logic to identify these casesmay allow for the utility to be realized. Incorrect reconciliation maypotentially result in false positive remediations and downstreamrepercussions. As a result, the receiver processor 140 may leveragerobust reconciliation logic itself for reconciling data from multiplesources. Although this disclosure describes reconciling particular datasources by particular processors in a particular manner, this disclosurecontemplates reconciling any suitable data source by any suitableprocessor in any suitable manner.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may store, in apayment transaction database associated with the receiver processor 140,a set of first transaction entries comprising real-time transactiondata. Each first transaction entry may be associated with one of aplurality of privacy payment transactions for a specified time period.Each privacy payment transaction may be associated with a transfer offunds to a receiving entity, via a privacy payment account of a user,from a funding account of the user that is decoupled from the privacypayment account. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140may then receive, from an external server, one or more network reportingfiles comprising historical transaction data associated with one or moreof the plurality of privacy payment transactions for the specified timeperiod. The receiver processor 140 may identify, from the set of firsttransaction entries and a set of second transaction entries derived fromthe historical transaction data, one or more identical pairs of a firsttransaction entry and a second transaction entry. In particularembodiments, for each identical pair, the first transaction entry andsecond transaction entry may be excluded from a remaining set of firsttransaction entries and a remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. The receiver processor 140 may then identify, for each ofone or more matching cycles, from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries, one or morematching pairs of a first transaction entry and a second transactionentry. In particular embodiments, each matching pair may be identifiedbased on a determination that a confidence metric for the matching pairis greater than a confidence threshold associated with the matchingcycle. For each matching pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction entry may be excluded from the remaining set of firsttransaction entries and the remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 mayfurther analyze, subsequent to the one or more matching cycles, theremaining set of first transaction entries and the remaining set ofsecond transaction entries to identify a set of incongruous transactionentries and determine one or more remediations for one or more of theincongruous transaction entries.

In particular embodiments, privacy payment transactions may be based onprivacy communication strings, privacy exchange account/card numbers,privacy transaction account/card numbers, or privacy paymentaccount/card numbers which are tagged to a specific server, vendor,provider or merchant, as opposed to being tagged to just a merchantcategory code (MCC) like in known systems. As such, merchants that storecard or account number for later authorization may be not storing theconsumer's actual account or card number. Different from a traditionalbank account, a privacy payment account (e.g., VBAN) may decouple theconcept of stored value balance from publicly routable account numbers.With a privacy payment account, a consumer may have one or more rootaccounts storing value balances that are air gapped from all financialinterchange networks and clearing houses. More information on privacypayment transactions may be found in U.S. patent application Ser. No.15/261,368, filed 9 Sep. 2016, which is incorporated by reference.

In particular embodiments, each privacy payment account may comprise atransaction resource configuration for privacy payment transactionsassociated with a receiving entity and the user for the privacy paymentaccount. For one or more of the privacy payment accounts, one or more ofthe plurality of privacy payment transactions may be authorized based onmetadata associated with the respective privacy payment transactionsatisfying one or more parameters of the transaction resourceconfiguration of the privacy payment account. In particular embodiments,for one or more of the privacy payment accounts, the transactionresource configuration of the respective privacy payment account may begenerated based on a customized transaction schema associated with apayment processor. As an example and not by way of limitation, thepayment processor may be an enterprise client of the receiver processor140. The payment processor may be associated with the account processor120 and may issue VBANs and cards associated with VBANs to accountholders 105. The customized transaction schema may be generated based onone or more customized schema parameters received from the paymentprocessor.

In particular embodiments, the one or more network reporting files maybe associated with a transaction network associated with the externalserver. As an example and not by way of limitation, the transactionnetwork may be the payment network 135, e.g., Visa or MasterCard.Correspondingly, the historical transaction data may comprise one ormore transaction datasets for the specified time period (e.g., a day ora week). In particular embodiments, the transaction datasets maycomprise one or more of transaction data associated with each of aplurality of users (e.g., account holders 105), transaction dataassociated with a payment processor (e.g., an enterprise that issuesaccounts/cards to account holders 105), transaction data associated withthe transaction network associated with the external server, transactiondata associated with the payment processor and the transaction network,or transaction data associated with the receiver processor 140. Inparticular embodiments, the historical transaction data may furthercomprise one or more total values for one or more of the transactiondatasets and/or fee data associated with one or more of the transactiondatasets. As an example and not by way of limitation, the fee data maybe associated with one or more of transaction fees, transaction networkfees, or international service assessments (ISA).

In particular embodiments, the network reporting files may comprise areport specific to a network provider containing information regardingcardholder activity on a broad level. This report may be a retrospectiveand batched report. In particular embodiments, the cardholder activitymay comprise information about transactions as well as totals forreconciliation. The cardholder activity may also include internationaltransactions (e.g., currency, conversion rate, amount, country code,etc.). The cardholder activity may be chronological regardless oftransaction status (i.e., may have it in primary account number order ifdesired).

In particular embodiments, the cardholder activity may comprise thefollowing detailed transaction information. The cardholder activity maycomprise cardholder number, which may be a primary account number (PAN),e.g., up to 21 characters. The cardholder activity may comprise aplastic number, which may indicate the card used for transaction ifthere are multiple cards per primary account number. As an example andnot by way of limitation, the primary account number may be associatedwith a root account storing value balance whereas these multiple cardscorrespond to VBANs associated with the root account. The cardholderactivity may also comprise transaction type (e.g., 2-3 characters), tiedto settlement process code or transaction type code. The cardholderactivity may also comprise debit information, which may indicate amountif transaction is a debit (e.g., deposit), amounts not followed byrejection which are settled transactions, and additional possible valueswhich are a mix of rejected and accepted. In particular embodiments, thecardholder activity may comprise credit information, which may indicatethe amount of a transaction that is a credit (e.g., withdrawal), amountsnot followed by rejection which are settled transactions, and additionalpossible values which are a mix of rejected and accepted. The cardholderactivity may also comprise fees, which may indicate the additionalcharges with this transaction. The cardholder activity may comprise adate and time that a network provider received the payment transactionrequest, which may be used to uniquely identify a transaction. Thecardholder activity may comprise a terminal institution, e.g., anidentifier (ID) number of the terminal-owning institution. Thecardholder activity may also comprise the number assigned to theterminal institution by the network provider, which may be used touniquely identify a transaction. The cardholder activity may comprise asequence number assigned by the network provider, which may be used touniquely identify a transaction. The cardholder activity mayadditionally comprise a code for exception transaction and a shortdescription, which may be advice sent, advice received, or reversalreason code. When a transaction has a minus sign (negative amount), itmay be a correction of another transaction and an exception reason mayalways print for these. The cardholder activity may comprise a code andshort description for a rejected transaction and reject reasons andcorresponding codes, terminal's local date and time of transaction, theID number of the card-owning institution, actual ID of the terminal forthis transaction, sequence number that the terminal gave to thetransaction, program indicator.

In particular embodiments, the report specific to the network providermay additionally comprise issuer activity for interchange. The issueractivity for interchange may show all transactions by the cardholders ofan institution at interchange-controlled terminals, substantiate fundmovement between institution and interchange network (assistingreconciliation), show each transaction in same degree of detail ascardholder activity report (along with the detail service lineinformation, summary totals, and statistical counts, etc.), andcounterpart to reports provided by interchange. In particularembodiments, the reported totals of the issuer activity for interchangemay comprise interchange totals and institution totals that are reportedfor the categories of previous suspense, previous institution suspense,issuer totals for interchange, institution issuer, today's suspense forinterchange, and today's institution suspense. All these categories maybe needed since cutoff for institution and interchange may not matchexactly (e.g., time difference of a couple seconds may push cutoffs).

In particular embodiments, the report specific to the network providermay additionally comprise institution activity summary, which may beutilized to verify the correctness of the ingestion of the individualentries that compromise this total. The institution activity summary maysummarize totals in cardholder activity report and the terminal activityreport. Net position here may be carried over to daily totals recapreport. The report specific to the network provider may additionallycomprise processor activity summary. The processor activity summary maylist the final settlement position for each institution on theinstitution activity summary report. In the processor activity summary,there may be one line of detail per institution and the adjust columnmay be net total adjustments for a particular processor/institution.

In particular embodiments, the report specific to the network providermay additionally comprise interchange activity summary. The interchangeactivity summary may summarize totals produced from issuer activity forinterchange report and acquirer activity for interchange report. Theinterchange activity summary may also have institution totals,interchange totals, and cutoff window difference, and also appear ondaily totals recap report.

In particular embodiments, the report specific to the network providermay additionally comprise daily totals recap. The daily totals recap mayreceive multiple copies of this report but if there is only oneinstitution behind a processor, only one copy may be produced. Eachinstitution may receive its own copy of this report with institutionnumber printed on top. In particular embodiments, the daily totals recapmay comprise interchange activity. The interchange activity may comprisetotals for each interchange network and include both computed totals andwindow difference at institution cutoff and interchange cutoff. Thedaily totals recap may comprise on-us activity, which is provided if thenetwork provider drives ATMs. If the network provider drives its ownATMs or intercept processors, the on-us activity may be not reported.

In particular embodiments, the daily totals recap may comprise terminaland cardholder activity, which may include terminal totals, service linetotals, and suspense totals. The terminal and cardholder activity mayprovide totals for non-cash media by commodity type. Total terminalbusiness day may not include totals for purchase transactions. Inparticular embodiments, the daily totals recap may comprise electronicfunds transfer (EFT) suspense account reconciliation, which may comprisetotals to identify and reconcile total suspense amount and net change tosuspense amount. The EFT suspense account reconciliation may compriseprevious suspense, which indicates total mounts from transactionsuspense activity on yesterday's report brought forward to today'sreport (e.g., yesterday's credit is today's debit). The EFT suspenseaccount reconciliation may additionally comprise posting totals, whichindicates an amount of transaction activity that occurred during theinstitution's current business day. The EFT suspense accountreconciliation may additionally comprise today's suspense, whichindicates an amount of transaction activity occurring since theinstitution's last cutoff. The EFT suspense account reconciliation mayadditionally comprise automated funds movement entry, which indicatestotal amount of funds moved by the network provider for the institution.In particular embodiments, there may be four types of lines of theautomated funds movement entry. One type of line may be automated fundsmovement entry which indicates full dollar amounts of funds to be movedminus surcharge/adjustment. Another type of line may be automated fundsmovement entry which indicates surcharge feeds to be separately movedfor the sponsoring institution. Another type of line may be automatedfunds movement entry which indicates surcharge fees to be separatelymoved for the merchant. Another type of line may be automated fundsmovement entry, which indicates adjustment monetary amount to beseparately moved.

In particular embodiments, the daily totals recap may comprise suspectfraud exception items report, token activation activity comprisinginformation about activity regarding using digital wallet payments, andfinancial and management accounting committee (FMAC) exception byinstitution.

In particular embodiments, the network reporting files may comprisegateway files. Gateway files may be similar to each other. A noticeabledifference may be that some payment networks 135 (e.g., MasterCard) mayuse issuer detail for interchange fees whereas some other paymentnetworks 135 (e.g., Visa) may use interchange fee report.

In particular embodiments, the gateway files may comprise cardholderactivity, which may include information related to each transaction. Thegateway files may also comprise issuer detail such as interchange fees.In particular embodiments, interchange fees may be opposite in polarityfrom the transaction type (e.g., debit transaction has interchangecredit fee). Unless otherwise noted, all positive amounts listed may beconsidered debit amounts. A net positive amount may be debited from(drawn out of) the account by the third party (e.g., a networkprovider); a net negative amount may be credited to (placed into) theaccount. For particular payment networks 135, the gateway files may alsocomprise an interchange fee report, which may include interchange fees.Similarly, interchange fees may be opposite in polarity from thetransaction type (e.g., debit transaction has interchange credit fee).The gateway files may further comprise international service assessment(ISA) fee report which may comprise international service assessment feeassessed by domestic banks for using foreign bank cards. Interchangefees may be the same in polarity from the transaction type (e.g., debittransaction has ISA debit fee).

FIGS. 12A-12B illustrate an example workflow 1200 for reconcilingpartially complete and congruent financial records. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may first ingest the networkreporting files, e.g., report files specific to the network provider andgateway text files. In particular embodiments, deriving the set ofsecond transaction entries from the historical transaction data maycomprise parsing the historical transaction data to generate one or moreunrefined datasets, processing the one or more unrefined datasets togenerate one or more refined datasets, and generating the set of secondtransaction entries based on the one or more refined datasets. At step1210, the receiver processor 140 may parse the text files and outputoriginal and untouched fields to CSV and SQL database. In particularembodiments, the payment transaction database may comprise one or moreof the CSV database or SQL database. In particular embodiments, CSV maybe a more casual and human-readable format where a user can quickly openand rudimentarily search through the document for sanity checking andanalysis. There may not be much more work than adding to the SQLdatabase and step 1210 may help with debugging during the testingphases. Existing CSV file output (e.g., gateway files associated withpayment networks 135) may be utilized by the accounting team. Inparticular embodiments, non-refined SQL may be the main table to be usedfor further refinement of data and translation into fields usable forreporting and analysis.

In particular embodiments, parsing the text files may be a directingestion of the files and the values may be completelyuntouched/non-refined from the text files (i.e., no refinement ortranslations). The receiver processor 140 may keep these values untyped(i.e., strings) to maintain as much consistency with the original filesas possible. Each document may be split into multiple CSV/tables due tomultiple report types existing in each overall document. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may be able to restart SQLinsertion at a given point. As an example and not by way of limitation,the receiver processor 140 may be able to accept a parameter referringto the last successfully inserted entity (e.g., transaction hash,summary entry, etc.) and restart insertion from that point. This mayreduce the need to check for reinsertion attempts in the database andduplicate management. The receiver processor 140 may have this as aseparate mechanism that simply reads from the CSV to insert into thedatabase.

The parsing may comprise generating CSV files for date 1212 and addingdate field for date 1214. In particular embodiments, generating CSVfiles for date 1212 may comprise reading from cloud storage and creatinglocal files 1213. Adding date field for date 1214 may comprisemanipulating local files 1215. At step 1220, the receiver processor 140may upload the parsed data. The upload may comprise copying all from thelocal to storage 1222 and uploading CSV files to a data managementsystem for date 1224. In particular embodiments, copying all from thelocal to storage 1222 may comprise uploading local files to a treasurystore 1223. Uploading CSV files to a data management system for date1224 may comprise uploading local files to the data management system1225.

In particular embodiments, processing the one or more unrefined datasetsto generate the one or more refined datasets may comprise obfuscatingone or more primary account numbers associated with the unrefineddatasets. Additionally, processing the one or more unrefined datasets togenerate the one or more refined datasets may comprise creating a set ofsettlement records for a plurality of privacy payment transactions for aprevious specified time period. At step 1230, the receiver processor 140may refine the uploaded CSV files, which may comprise obfuscating PANsfor date 1232 and creating settlement records for previous date 1234.The receiver processor 140 may insert the refined data into a separatedatabase. In particular embodiments, obfuscating PANs for date 1232 maybe based on SQL query 1233. Creating settlement records for previousdate 1234 may be based on SQL query 1235. When refining non-refineddata, the receiver processor 140 may use non-refined dataset to generatethe refined data or perform these actions in a separate data structureduring the processing. Using non-refined database to generate refineddatabase may create better ownership of responsibilities for thescript/job (i.e., one job to handle parsing and one job to handlerefining) and may be also more fault tolerant (i.e., issues in this step1230 may not affect the parsing step 1210). In particular embodiments,the receiver processor 140 may use a separate data structure during theparsing step 1210 to make it simpler due to all information being extantin the parsing step 1210 and avoid the need to reconstruct datastructures by ingesting from the non-refined database. Additionally, itmay be faster to perform translations and sums in the same step. Iftransformations of the data are sufficiently thin, this step 1230 may becompletely skipped in lieu of running the transformations and refinementin the reports themselves. If this happens, type-enforcement and otherdata quality errors may need to be handled by the reports. The receiverprocessor 140 may need alerting for enforcement of types and unexpectedvalues.

At step 1240, the receiver processor 140 may populate the refined data,which may comprise populating unmatched tables for date 1242. Populatingunmatched tables for date 1242 may be based on SQL query 1243. At step1250, the receiver processor 140 may match the data from the primarysource (i.e., the set of first transaction entries) and secondary source(i.e., the set of second transaction entries), which may compriseperforming all matches 1252. Performing all matches 1252 may be based onSQL query 1253. In particular embodiments, one or more of the matchingpairs may be each identified based on transaction criteria associatedwith one or more of the corresponding privacy payment transaction, theuser, the receiving entity, the privacy payment account, or atransaction network associated with the external server. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, the transaction criteria may comprise oneor more of a transaction identifier, a transaction value, a transactiontimestamp, a user identifier, a receiving entity identifier, a privacypayment account identifier, or a transaction network identifier.Identifying matching pairs based on transaction criteria associated withone or more of the corresponding privacy payment transaction, the user,the receiving entity, the privacy payment account, or a transactionnetwork associated with the external server may be an effective solutionfor addressing the technical challenge of identifying matching pairsbetween the real-time transaction data and the historical transactiondata as such transaction criteria can provide reliable measurement forevaluating the correspondence between the two data sources. Furthermore,there may be a tiered (ordered) list of criteria for matching,approached in a descending order of confidence for the matching process.Thus, the matching process may provide additional information about thespecific ordering/criteria if needed.

In particular embodiments, for each of one or more of the incongruoustransaction entries, the one or more remediations may comprise one ormore of correcting one or more incorrect data field entries,supplementing one or more missing data field entries with data fieldentries from a different incongruous transaction entry, or generating amissing transaction entry matching the incongruous transaction entry.One or more of the incorrect data field entries, missing data fieldentries, or missing transaction entries may be associated with one ormore of an improper interpretation of transaction data, an improperprocessing of transaction data, or one or more incomplete data fieldentries in the transaction data.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may process theone or more remediations to generate one or more remediated transactionentries. The receiver processor 140 may further generate a set ofreconciled transaction entries based on the identified identical pairs,the identified matching pairs, and the remediated transaction entries.As an example and not by way of limitation, generating the set ofreconciled transaction entries may be associated with one or more ofsettlement reconciliation, funding reconciliation, or accountingreconciliation. As a result, the embodiments disclosed herein may have atechnical advantage of effectively identifying and remediating improperdecisions made using real-time transaction data as the reconcile logicmay identify these cases based on the analysis of partial completenessand congruency of both the real-time transaction data and historicaltransaction data.

At step 1260, the receiver processor 140 may report the reconciliationresults. In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may firstcreate reports using the refined database. The receiver processor 140may generate one or more customized reports associated with a paymentprocessor based on the set of reconciled transaction entries. Inparticular embodiments, the one or more customized reports may beconfigured to monitor, for one or more privacy payment accounts, one ormore metrics associated with account balances, funding requests,requested transactions, authorized transactions, and declinedtransactions. The reports may comprise summary reports to financialinstitutions as well as the traditional transactions reconciliation.Usually, the refined data may be enough to compare with the internaldatabase of the receiver processor 140 and may be able to directlyinsert the results into the reports. If this data is not enough, thereceiver processor 140 may consider tradeoffs between having the reportdraw directly from the refined data versus having the report performadditional logic. The receiver processor 140 may then save reports to atreasury storage for future lookback. The receiver processor 140 mayfurther send the completed reports to relevant entities, which may beseparate from report creation. In particular embodiments, sending thecompleted reports may have a thin layer only to SFTP, email, or thereceiver processor 140 may send files in other formats. During thesending of the completed reports, it may be simple to alert in theworkflow 1200 or other scheduling mechanisms when job fails.

In particular embodiments, the workflow 1200 may have the followingrequirements. As an example and not by way of limitation, the receiverprocessor 140 may run the workflow 1200 at 10 am. If it fails, thegeneral service level agreement (SLA) may be by the end of the businessday (e.g., end of the business day on weekdays or Monday on weekends).The workflow 1200 may be dependent on the past day. If yesterday'sinstance failed or hasn't been scheduled, the receiver processor 140 maynot run today's instance. In particular embodiments, the receiverprocessor 140 may split the pipeline script of the workflow 1200 intoseparate, discrete files for each intended, encapsulated purpose for thesubtasks in the collection of all the tasks needed to be run. Inparticular embodiments, the script may write the parsed CSV fileslocally, which then get uploaded to both the treasury storage and thedata management system. Alternatively, the script may write the parsedCSV files into memory without local storage, but these files may beoptionally deleted after completion of the pipeline. In particularembodiments, the script may write the report files to both the cloudstorage and an external storage. Alternatively, only external storagemay be necessary, but in the meantime, the API 140 a may hit the cloudstorage.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may usealternative measures if either the reconciliation or the remediationcannot be handled via the workflow 1200 (e.g., parsing issues, databaseserver issues, etc.). As an example and not by way of limitation, thereceiver processor 140 may involve manual handling of the errors whileusing the workflow 1200 as a stopgap. In particular embodiments, thesealternative measures may comprise expected SLA for external reportingand expected SLA for remediations. As an example and not by way oflimitation, if the workflow 1200 is designed with an expected SLA of T+1day, manual intervention may push the return time.

In particular embodiments, the reconciliation workflow 1200 may havemost of the parts automated. From the top, the receiver processor 140may schedule kicking off a docker instance to handle pulling a networkreporting file from SFTP to the treasury storage, reading and parsingthe file in the treasury storage, and then writing the entries to thetables in the data management system as well as the CSV files to thetreasury storage. In particular embodiments, the reconciliation matchingmay mostly be handled via SQL query, with the non-matching entries beingcollected and stored. These non-matching entries as well as explicitFMAC exception entries may be handled manually. In particularembodiments, the receiver processor 140 may determine, for one or moreof the incongruous transaction entries, that no remediation has beenidentified. Accordingly, the receiver processor 140 may furthergenerate, for each of the one or more of the incongruous transactionentries with no identified remediation, a flag indicating that manualreconciliation is required. As an example and not by way of limitation,much (i.e., all if personally identifiable information is not aconsideration) of the network information may be provided to a manualintervener at this step to provide context about the transaction, andheuristics may be included in the matching step to better providepreliminary analyses as to what may be the issue (e.g., fuzzy matchingmissed by a few cents but not just one cent). At this step, the manualinterventionist may approve the actions for the entries (e.g.,submitting synthetic records into core for missing transactions,approving refunds). This may be handled by providing UI views similar tothe workflow 1200 (i.e., clearing queue in admin).

FIG. 13 illustrates an example flow diagram for reconciling partiallycomplete and congruent financial records. In particular embodiments, anetwork provider 1310 may store gateway files 1315 associated with thenetwork provider. The gateway files 1315 may be associated with aparticular date and the format may be text. A cloud storage 1320 maypull gateway files 1015 from the network provider 1310 to the cloudstorage 1320. The cloud storage 1320 may be associated with the receiverprocessor 140. In particular embodiments, the cloud storage 1320 maystore daily network reporting files such as gateway files 1315.

In particular embodiments, a treasury storage 1330 may then copy thegateway files 1315 from the cloud storage 1320. The treasury storage1330 may be also associated with the receiver processor 140. Inparticular embodiments, the treasury storage 1330 may compriseintermediate and reporting files. The schemas for the treasury storage1330 may comprise one or more of network-provider report of cardholdertransaction, network-provider report of issuer activity for interchange,network-provider report of token authorization activity,network-provider report of FMAC exception, gateway cardholder activity,gateway ISA fee from payment networks 135, gateway interchange fee frompayment networks 135, or gateway issuer detail from payment networks 135(i.e., settlement transaction interchange fees). For network-providerreport of cardholder transaction, network-provider report of issueractivity for interchange, network-provider report of FMAC exception,gateway cardholder activity, the schema may comprise a unique identifierdetermined based on hash (e.g., switch date, switch time, switchterminal, switch sequence, and line index) and processing timestamp. Fornetwork-provider report of token authorization activity, the schema maycomprise a unique identifier determined based on hash (e.g., fundingpan, switch date, switch time, activity type, and line index) andprocessing timestamp. For gateway ISA fee from payment networks 135 andgateway interchange fee from payment networks 135, the schema maycomprise a unique identifier determined based on hash (e.g., primaryaccount number, local date, local time, sequence number, and line index)and processing timestamp. For gateway issuer detail from paymentnetworks 135, the schema may comprise a unique identifier determinedbased on hash (e.g., switch date, switch time, switch terminal, acquirerreference number, and line index) and processing timestamp.

In particular embodiments, the treasury storage 1330 may then parse thegateway files to generate network-provider report of activity 1332(e.g., in CSV format) associated with the network provider 1310, aninterchange fee report 1334 (e.g., in CSV format), ISA fee report 1336(e.g., in csv format), network-provider report of financial andmanagement accounting committee (FMAC) exceptions 1338. The treasurystorage 1330 may insert the parsed gateway files to a data managementsystem 1340.

In particular embodiments, the data management system 1340 may comprisethe raw fields directly parsed from the network reporting files, e.g.,the network-provider report of activity 1332, interchange fee report1334, ISA fee report 1336, and network-provider report of FMACexceptions 1338. The only type validations that occurred may be implicitand for fields needed for control-total validations (i.e., credit,debit, fee, memo, and amounts). In particular embodiments, the datamanagement system 1340 may comprise internal transaction log 1341, whichmay be replicated time to time (e.g., on an hourly basis). The datamanagement system 1340 may refine the network-provider report ofactivity 1332, interchange fee report 1334, and ISA fee report 1336 togenerate settlement records 1342. The settlement records 1342 maycomprise the typed fields translated from raw fields, including linkageto transaction log 1341 entries.

In particular embodiments, the data management system 1340 may determineunmatched transaction log data (TL_unmatched) 1343 from the transactionlog 1341. The unmatched transaction log data 1343 may comprise thepartial list of transaction log 1341 entries that do not yet exist insettlement records 1342 as a linkage. The unmatched transaction log data1342 combined with the transaction log entries in settlement records1342 may equate to the entire set of transaction log entries intransaction log 1341 (outside of backfilling). In particularembodiments, the data management system 1340 may determine unmatchednetwork log data (NL_unmatched) 1344 from the network-provider report ofactivity 1332. The data management system 1340 may then match theunmatched transaction log data 1342 and the unmatched network log data1344 to generate the matched network log data (NL_matched) 1345.

In particular embodiments, the data management system 1340 may determineunmatched FMAC data (FMAC_unmatched) 1346 from the FMAC exceptions. Thedata management system 1340 may further provide the FMAC exceptions 1338to the core server 1350 of the receiver processor 140 remediation. Theremediation may comprise creating synthetic entries. After remediation,the core server 1350 may write the results to transaction log togenerate transaction log FMAC entries 1347. The data management system1340 may then match unmatched FMAC data 1346 and the transaction logFMAC entries 1347 to generate the matched FMAC data 1348.

The following may be an example process for reconciling financialrecords for a particular report date D. To begin with, the set ofnetwork reporting files may be copied from cloud storage 1320 totreasury storage 1330 at path D/recon/fis/file.txt. The networkreporting files from the treasury storage 1330 may be then parsed intoCSVs, uploaded to the treasury storage 1330 at pathD/recon/fis/file.csv. The data management system 1340 may check if dateD exists in the treasury internal raw data. If date D exists, the datamanagement system 1340 may mark the old entries invalid by setting “isinvalidated=FALSE” for all the date D rows in the treasury internal rawdata. For each of the newly invalidated entries, the data managementsystem 1340 may find its corresponding entry in the settlement records1342, remove its row in the settlement records 1342, and reinsert theentry associated with the transaction log identifier into the unmatchedtransaction log data 1343. The data management system 1340 may theninsert entries from CSV files to the treasury internal raw data. Thedata management system 1340 may then add new entries into the settlementrecords 1342 by cleaning the text from the treasury internal raw datainto typed fields and linking the ISA fees and interchange to thesettlement records. In particular embodiments, the data managementsystem 1340 may pull newer entries from replicated transaction log 1341into unmatched transaction log 1343. This may be performed by findingthe highest index for transaction log identifier in the settlementrecords 1342 and unmatched transaction log 1343 and adding thetransaction log 1341 entries with higher identifier values. The datamanagement system 1340 may further match against unmatched transactionlog 1343. On successful matches, the data management system 1340 mayupdate transaction log identifiers, set “is_matched=TRUE”, and removeentries in unmatched transaction log 1343.

In particular embodiments, the receiver processor 140 may implement atesting and alerting plan to ensure effective reconciliation ofpartially complete and congruent financial records and that futurechanges do not introduce regressions. The plan may be based oningestion, parsing, refining, creation, and sending. The ingestion maycomprise unit tests, integration tests, and alerting. For unit tests, asecure file transfer protocol, e.g., SFTP (SSH file transfer protocol),may be accessed and the treasury storage 1330 may be writable. Forintegration tests, the receiver processor 140 may set up a fake SFTPport that mimics the server of a network provider 1310 and perform thefile pull from there, write to the treasury storage 1330, and clean upcreated files regardless of failure or not. The receiver processor 140may generate alerting based on following rules. If SFTP cannot beaccessed, there may be a failure alert. If a file does not exist inSFTP, there may be a failure alert. If multiple files exist and areduplicates, there may be a warning alert. If multiple files exist andare not duplicates, there may be a failure alert. If the treasurystorage 1330 is not writeable, there may be a failure alert.

In particular embodiments, the parsing of the plan may similarlycomprise unit tests, integration tests, and alerting. For unit tests,the receiver processor 140 may verify correct CSV output as compared to“expected” given raw, anonymized network reporting files for each fileportion indicated in the file anatomy section and for each field in thefile portions that are actively used by the existing reconciliationpipeline. The receiver processor 140 may additionally verify incompletedocuments result in errors, verify erroneous fields result in errors,and verify extraneous fields result in errors. For integration tests,the receiver processor 140 may compare sample runs to files created bythe currently existing parsing structure. The parsing structure may notcurrently output any intermediate files or write to any databases, butthere may be current work to support this. The intermediate informationmay be restricted to only the portions that are used by the existingreconcile pipeline, which may be a subset of the information retrievedby the parsing mechanism. In particular embodiments, the receiverprocessor 140 may generate alerting based on following rules. If thetreasury storage 1330 cannot be accessed, there may be a failure alert.If the network reporting file does not exist, there may be a failurealert. If the treasury storage 1330 for CSV cannot be accessed orwritten to, there may be a failure alert. If the SQL database cannot beaccessed, there may be a failure alert. If a document fails any of theunit test qualities, there may be a failure alert. If the total numberof transactions is a large deviation from the past number oftransactions, there may be a warning alert. If SQL row insertion fails,there may be a failure alert. If transaction or entry insertion resultsin collision for the programmatically generated identifiers, there maybe a failure alert.

FIG. 14 illustrates an example method 1400 for reconciling financialrecords. The method may begin at step 1410, where the receiver processor140 may store, in a payment transaction database associated with thereceiver processor 140, a set of first transaction entries comprisingreal-time transaction data, each first transaction entry beingassociated with one of a plurality of privacy payment transactions for aspecified time period, wherein each privacy payment transaction isassociated with a transfer of funds to a receiving entity, via a privacypayment account of a user, from a funding account of the user that isdecoupled from the privacy payment account. At step 1420, the receiverprocessor 140 may receive, from an external server, one or more networkreporting files comprising historical transaction data associated withone or more of the plurality of privacy payment transactions for thespecified time period, wherein the one or more network reporting filesare associated with a transaction network associated with the externalserver, wherein the historical transaction data comprises one or moretransaction datasets for the specified time period, the transactiondatasets comprising one or more of transaction data associated with eachof a plurality of users, transaction data associated with a paymentprocessor, transaction data associated with a transaction networkassociated with the external server, transaction data associated withthe payment processor and the transaction network, or transaction dataassociated with the issuer processor, and wherein the historicaltransaction data further comprises one or more total values and fee dataassociated with one or more of the transaction datasets, the fee databeing associated with one or more of transaction fees, transactionnetwork fees, or international service assessments (ISA). At step 1430,the receiver processor 140 may identify, from the set of firsttransaction entries and a set of second transaction entries derived fromthe historical transaction data, one or more identical pairs of a firsttransaction entry and a second transaction entry, wherein, for eachidentical pair, the first transaction entry and second transaction entryare excluded from a remaining set of first transaction entries and aremaining set of second transaction entries, respectively. At step 1440,the receiver processor 140 may identify, for each of one or morematching cycles, from the remaining set of first transaction entries andthe remaining set of second transaction entries, one or more matchingpairs of a first transaction entry and a second transaction entry,wherein each matching pair is identified based on a determination that aconfidence metric for the matching pair is greater than a confidencethreshold associated with the matching cycle, and wherein, for eachmatching pair, the first transaction entry and second transaction entryare excluded from the remaining set of first transaction entries and theremaining set of second transaction entries, respectively, wherein oneor more of the matching pairs are each identified based on transactioncriteria associated with one or more of the corresponding privacypayment transaction, the user, the receiving entity, the privacy paymentaccount, or a transaction network associated with the external server,wherein the transaction criteria comprises one or more of a transactionidentifier, a transaction value, a transaction timestamp, a useridentifier, a receiving entity identifier, a privacy payment accountidentifier, or a transaction network identifier. At step 1450, thereceiver processor 140 may analyze, subsequent to the one or morematching cycles, the remaining set of first transaction entries and theremaining set of second transaction entries to identify a set ofincongruous transaction entries and determine one or more remediationsfor one or more of the incongruous transaction entries. Particularembodiments may repeat one or more steps of the method of FIG. 14 ,where appropriate. Although this disclosure describes and illustratesparticular steps of the method of FIG. 14 as occurring in a particularorder, this disclosure contemplates any suitable steps of the method ofFIG. 14 occurring in any suitable order. Moreover, although thisdisclosure describes and illustrates an example method for reconcilingfinancial records including the particular steps of the method of FIG.14 , this disclosure contemplates any suitable method for reconcilingfinancial records including any suitable steps, which may include all,some, or none of the steps of the method of FIG. 14 , where appropriate.Furthermore, although this disclosure describes and illustratesparticular components, devices, or systems carrying out particular stepsof the method of FIG. 14 , this disclosure contemplates any suitablecombination of any suitable components, devices, or systems carrying outany suitable steps of the method of FIG. 14 .

Systems and Methods

FIG. 15 illustrates an example computer system 1500. In particularembodiments, one or more computer systems 1500 perform one or more stepsof one or more methods described or illustrated herein. In particularembodiments, one or more computer systems 1500 provide functionalitydescribed or illustrated herein. In particular embodiments, softwarerunning on one or more computer systems 1500 performs one or more stepsof one or more methods described or illustrated herein or providesfunctionality described or illustrated herein. Particular embodimentsinclude one or more portions of one or more computer systems 1500.Herein, reference to a computer system may encompass a computing device,and vice versa, where appropriate. Moreover, reference to a computersystem may encompass one or more computer systems, where appropriate.

This disclosure contemplates any suitable number of computer systems1500. This disclosure contemplates computer system 1500 taking anysuitable physical form. As example and not by way of limitation,computer system 1500 may be an embedded computer system, asystem-on-chip (SOC), a single-board computer system (SBC) (such as, forexample, a computer-on-module (COM) or system-on-module (SOM)), adesktop computer system, a laptop or notebook computer system, aninteractive kiosk, a mainframe, a mesh of computer systems, a mobiletelephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a server, a tabletcomputer system, or a combination of two or more of these. Whereappropriate, computer system 1500 may include one or more computersystems 1500; be unitary or distributed; span multiple locations; spanmultiple machines; span multiple data centers; or reside in a cloud,which may include one or more cloud components in one or more networks.Where appropriate, one or more computer systems 1500 may perform withoutsubstantial spatial or temporal limitation one or more steps of one ormore methods described or illustrated herein. As an example and not byway of limitation, one or more computer systems 1500 may perform in realtime or in batch mode one or more steps of one or more methods describedor illustrated herein. One or more computer systems 1500 may perform atdifferent times or at different locations one or more steps of one ormore methods described or illustrated herein, where appropriate.

In particular embodiments, computer system 1500 includes a processor1502, memory 1504, storage 1506, an input/output (I/O) interface 1508, acommunication interface 1510, and a bus 1512. Although this disclosuredescribes and illustrates a particular computer system having aparticular number of particular components in a particular arrangement,this disclosure contemplates any suitable computer system having anysuitable number of any suitable components in any suitable arrangement.

In particular embodiments, processor 1502 includes hardware forexecuting instructions, such as those making up a computer program. Asan example and not by way of limitation, to execute instructions,processor 1502 may retrieve (or fetch) the instructions from an internalregister, an internal cache, memory 1504, or storage 1506; decode andexecute them; and then write one or more results to an internalregister, an internal cache, memory 1504, or storage 1506. In particularembodiments, processor 1502 may include one or more internal caches fordata, instructions, or addresses. This disclosure contemplates processor1502 including any suitable number of any suitable internal caches,where appropriate. As an example and not by way of limitation, processor1502 may include one or more instruction caches, one or more datacaches, and one or more translation lookaside buffers (TLBs).Instructions in the instruction caches may be copies of instructions inmemory 1504 or storage 1506, and the instruction caches may speed upretrieval of those instructions by processor 1502. Data in the datacaches may be copies of data in memory 1504 or storage 1506 forinstructions executing at processor 1502 to operate on; the results ofprevious instructions executed at processor 1502 for access bysubsequent instructions executing at processor 1502 or for writing tomemory 1504 or storage 1506; or other suitable data. The data caches mayspeed up read or write operations by processor 1502. The TLBs may speedup virtual-address translation for processor 1502. In particularembodiments, processor 1502 may include one or more internal registersfor data, instructions, or addresses. This disclosure contemplatesprocessor 1502 including any suitable number of any suitable internalregisters, where appropriate. Where appropriate, processor 1502 mayinclude one or more arithmetic logic units (ALUs); be a multi-coreprocessor; or include one or more processors 1502. Although thisdisclosure describes and illustrates a particular processor, thisdisclosure contemplates any suitable processor.

In particular embodiments, memory 1504 includes main memory for storinginstructions for processor 1502 to execute or data for processor 1502 tooperate on. As an example and not by way of limitation, computer system1500 may load instructions from storage 1506 or another source (such as,for example, another computer system 1500) to memory 1504. Processor1502 may then load the instructions from memory 1504 to an internalregister or internal cache. To execute the instructions, processor 1502may retrieve the instructions from the internal register or internalcache and decode them. During or after execution of the instructions,processor 1502 may write one or more results (which may be intermediateor final results) to the internal register or internal cache. Processor1502 may then write one or more of those results to memory 1504. Inparticular embodiments, processor 1502 executes only instructions in oneor more internal registers or internal caches or in memory 1504 (asopposed to storage 1506 or elsewhere) and operates only on data in oneor more internal registers or internal caches or in memory 1504 (asopposed to storage 1506 or elsewhere). One or more memory buses (whichmay each include an address bus and a data bus) may couple processor1502 to memory 1504. Bus 1512 may include one or more memory buses, asdescribed below. In particular embodiments, one or more memorymanagement units (MMUs) reside between processor 1502 and memory 1504and facilitate accesses to memory 1504 requested by processor 1502. Inparticular embodiments, memory 1504 includes random access memory (RAM).This RAM may be volatile memory, where appropriate. Where appropriate,this RAM may be dynamic RAM (DRAM) or static RAM (SRAM). Moreover, whereappropriate, this RAM may be single-ported or multi-ported RAM. Thisdisclosure contemplates any suitable RAM. Memory 1504 may include one ormore memories 1504, where appropriate. Although this disclosuredescribes and illustrates particular memory, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable memory.

In particular embodiments, storage 1506 includes mass storage for dataor instructions. As an example and not by way of limitation, storage1506 may include a hard disk drive (HDD), a floppy disk drive, flashmemory, an optical disc, a magneto-optical disc, magnetic tape, or aUniversal Serial Bus (USB) drive or a combination of two or more ofthese. Storage 1506 may include removable or non-removable (or fixed)media, where appropriate. Storage 1506 may be internal or external tocomputer system 1500, where appropriate. In particular embodiments,storage 1506 is non-volatile, solid-state memory. In particularembodiments, storage 1506 includes read-only memory (ROM). Whereappropriate, this ROM may be mask-programmed ROM, programmable ROM(PROM), erasable PROM (EPROM), electrically erasable PROM (EEPROM),electrically alterable ROM (EAROM), or flash memory or a combination oftwo or more of these. This disclosure contemplates mass storage 1506taking any suitable physical form. Storage 1506 may include one or morestorage control units facilitating communication between processor 1502and storage 1506, where appropriate. Where appropriate, storage 1506 mayinclude one or more storages 1506. Although this disclosure describesand illustrates particular storage, this disclosure contemplates anysuitable storage.

In particular embodiments, I/O interface 1508 includes hardware,software, or both, providing one or more interfaces for communicationbetween computer system 1500 and one or more I/O devices. Computersystem 1500 may include one or more of these I/O devices, whereappropriate. One or more of these I/O devices may enable communicationbetween a person and computer system 1500. As an example and not by wayof limitation, an I/O device may include a keyboard, keypad, microphone,monitor, mouse, printer, scanner, speaker, still camera, stylus, tablet,touch screen, trackball, video camera, another suitable I/O device or acombination of two or more of these. An I/O device may include one ormore sensors. This disclosure contemplates any suitable I/O devices andany suitable I/O interfaces 1508 for them. Where appropriate, I/Ointerface 1508 may include one or more device or software driversenabling processor 1502 to drive one or more of these I/O devices. I/Ointerface 1508 may include one or more I/O interfaces 1508, whereappropriate. Although this disclosure describes and illustrates aparticular I/O interface, this disclosure contemplates any suitable I/Ointerface.

In particular embodiments, communication interface 1510 includeshardware, software, or both providing one or more interfaces forcommunication (such as, for example, packet-based communication) betweencomputer system 1500 and one or more other computer systems 1500 or oneor more networks. As an example and not by way of limitation,communication interface 1510 may include a network interface controller(NIC) or network adapter for communicating with an Ethernet or otherwire-based network or a wireless NIC (WNIC) or wireless adapter forcommunicating with a wireless network, such as a WI-FI network. Thisdisclosure contemplates any suitable network and any suitablecommunication interface 1510 for it. As an example and not by way oflimitation, computer system 1500 may communicate with an ad hoc network,a personal area network (PAN), a local area network (LAN), a wide areanetwork (WAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), or one or moreportions of the Internet or a combination of two or more of these. Oneor more portions of one or more of these networks may be wired orwireless. As an example and not by way of limitation, computer system1500 may communicate with a wireless PAN (WPAN) (such as, for example, aBLUETOOTH WPAN), a WI-FI network, a WI-MAX network, a cellular telephonenetwork (such as, for example, a Global System for Mobile Communications(GSM) network), other suitable wireless networks or any combinationthereof. Computer system 1500 may include any suitable communicationinterface 1510 for any of these networks, where appropriate.Communication interface 1510 may include one or more communicationinterfaces 1510, where appropriate. Although this disclosure describesand illustrates a particular communication interface, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable communication interface.

In particular embodiments, bus 1512 includes hardware, software, or bothcoupling components of computer system 1500 to each other. As an exampleand not by way of limitation, bus 1512 may include an AcceleratedGraphics Port (AGP) or other graphics bus, an Enhanced Industry StandardArchitecture (EISA) bus, a front-side bus (FSB), a HYPERTRANSPORT (HT)interconnect, an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, an INFINIBANDinterconnect, a low-pin-count (LPC) bus, a memory bus, a Micro ChannelArchitecture (MCA) bus, a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, aPCI-Express (PCIe) bus, a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA)bus, a Video Electronics Standards Association local (VLB) bus, oranother suitable bus or a combination of two or more of these. Bus 1512may include one or more buses 1512, where appropriate. Although thisdisclosure describes and illustrates a particular bus, this disclosurecontemplates any suitable bus or interconnect.

Herein, a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium or media mayinclude one or more semiconductor-based or other integrated circuits(ICs) (such, as for example, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) orapplication-specific ICs (ASICs)), hard disk drives (HDDs), hybrid harddrives (HHDs), optical discs, optical disc drives (ODDs),magneto-optical discs, magneto-optical drives, floppy diskettes, floppydisk drives (FDDs), magnetic tapes, solid-state drives (SSDs),RAM-drives, SECURE DIGITAL cards or drives, any other suitablecomputer-readable non-transitory storage media, or any suitablecombination of two or more of these, where appropriate. Acomputer-readable non-transitory storage medium may be volatile,non-volatile, or a combination of volatile and non-volatile, whereappropriate.

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Herein, “or” is inclusive and not exclusive, unless expressly indicatedotherwise or indicated otherwise by context. Therefore, herein, “A or B”means “A, B, or both,” unless expressly indicated otherwise or indicatedotherwise by context. Moreover, “and” is both joint and several, unlessexpressly indicated otherwise or indicated otherwise by context.Therefore, herein, “A and B” means “A and B, jointly or severally,”unless expressly indicated otherwise or indicated otherwise by context.

It should be also noted that although this disclosure refers to VBANthroughout, this disclosure contemplates any suitable type of VBAN.

The scope of this disclosure encompasses all changes, substitutions,variations, alterations, and modifications to the example embodimentsdescribed or illustrated herein that a person having ordinary skill inthe art would comprehend. The scope of this disclosure is not limited tothe example embodiments described or illustrated herein. Moreover,although this disclosure describes and illustrates respectiveembodiments herein as including particular components, elements,feature, functions, operations, or steps, any of these embodiments mayinclude any combination or permutation of any of the components,elements, features, functions, operations, or steps described orillustrated anywhere herein that a person having ordinary skill in theart would comprehend. Furthermore, reference in the appended claims toan apparatus or system or a component of an apparatus or system beingadapted to, arranged to, capable of, configured to, enabled to, operableto, or operative to perform a particular function encompasses thatapparatus, system, component, whether or not it or that particularfunction is activated, turned on, or unlocked, as long as thatapparatus, system, or component is so adapted, arranged, capable,configured, enabled, operable, or operative. Additionally, although thisdisclosure describes or illustrates particular embodiments as providingparticular advantages, particular embodiments may provide none, some, orall of these advantages.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method comprising, by one or more computingsystems associated with a receiver processor: receiving, from anexternal server by the receiver processor, a transaction authorizationrequest to authorize a transaction associated with a transfer ofresources to a receiving entity from a user, wherein the transactionauthorization request comprises publicly routable account credentials ofa virtual bank account (VBAN) generated by the receiver processor,wherein the VBAN is associated with the receiving entity, the user, anda stored value balance of an external resource account associated withthe user, and wherein the external resource account is generated by areceiver financial entity; retrieving, from a VBAN database by thereceiver processor, a transaction resource configuration of the VBAN fortransactions associated with the receiving entity and the user, whereinthe transaction resource configuration is decoupled from the externalresource account; determining, by the receiver processor, whether one ormore parameters of the transaction resource configuration of the VBANare satisfied based on metadata associated with the transactionauthorization request; and transmitting, to the external server by thereceiver processor, responsive to determining whether the one or moreparameters of the transaction resource configuration of the VBAN aresatisfied, a transaction authorization response indicating whether thetransaction is authorized, wherein the transaction being authorized isbased on the one or more parameters of the transaction resourceconfiguration of the VBAN being satisfied, and wherein the transactionbeing authorized causes the stored value balance associated with theexternal resource account to be reduced based on the transfer ofresources associated with the transaction.
 2. The method of claim 1,wherein the transaction authorization request is received via anapplication programming interface (API).
 3. The method of claim 1,further comprising: receiving an indication that the user has requestedthe VBAN to be generated for transactions associated with the receivingentity.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the transaction resourceconfiguration comprises a stored value balance associated with the VBAN.5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transaction resource configurationis configured to access a stored value balance of a quantity ofavailable resources in the external resource account.
 6. The method ofclaim 1, wherein the external resource account is further associatedwith a financial interchange network or an automated clearing house. 7.The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more parameters of thetransaction resource configuration comprise one or more of an identifierassociated with the receiving entity, an identifier associated with aplurality of receiving entities, a category of receiving entities, or ageographic identifier associated with the receiving entity.
 8. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the one or more parameters of the transactionresource configuration comprise one or more of a specified number ofauthorized transactions, a specified quantity of resources authorizedfor a single transaction, or a specified total quantity of resourcesauthorized for a plurality of transactions.
 9. The method of claim 8,wherein the specified number of authorized transactions is the number oftransactions authorized for a specified period of time.
 10. The methodof claim 1, wherein the transfer of resources comprises a payment to thereceiving entity by the user, and wherein the one or more parameterscomprise one or more of a type of payment, a type of currency, or a typeof transaction.
 11. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of theparameters of the transaction resource configuration are specified bythe user.
 12. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of theparameters of the transaction resource configuration are specified by apayment processor associated with the external resource account.
 13. Themethod of claim 1, wherein one or more of the parameters of thetransaction resource configuration are default parameters specified by aprocessing entity associated with the VBAN.
 14. The method of claim 1,further comprising: determining, based on one or more machine-learningmodels trained on historical transaction data, one or more of theparameters of the transaction resource configuration.
 15. The method ofclaim 1, further comprising: updating, based on contextual dataassociated with one or more transactions associated with the VBAN, oneor more of the parameters of the transaction resource configuration. 16.The method of claim 1, wherein one or more additional VBANs areassociated with the external resource account.
 17. The method of claim1, further comprising: determining, based on a risk model fordetermining whether a transaction is fraudulent, a likelihood that thetransaction authorization request is fraudulent; and transmitting, basedon the likelihood that the transaction authorization request isfraudulent, a transaction authorization response indicating that thetransaction is not authorized.
 18. The method of claim 17, wherein thelikelihood that the transaction authorization request is fraudulent isdetermined based on one or more patterns identified in metadataassociated with one or more previous fraudulent transactions.
 19. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the transaction resource configuration isgenerated based on a customized transaction schema associated with apayment processor, and wherein the customized transaction schema isgenerated based on one or more customized schema parameters receivedfrom the payment processor.
 20. The method of claim 1, furthercomprising: storing real-time transaction data associated with thetransaction in a set of first transaction entries, wherein the set offirst transaction entries additionally comprise real-time transactiondata associated with one or more additional transactions for a specifiedtime period; receiving, from the external server, one or more networkreporting files comprising historical transaction data associated withthe transaction and the one or more additional transactions for thespecified time period; identifying, from the set of first transactionentries and a set of second transaction entries derived from thehistorical transaction data, one or more identical pairs of a firsttransaction entry and a second transaction entry, wherein, for eachidentical pair, the first transaction entry and second transaction entryare excluded from a remaining set of first transaction entries and aremaining set of second transaction entries, respectively; identifying,for each of one or more matching cycles, from the remaining set of firsttransaction entries and the remaining set of second transaction entries,one or more matching pairs of a first transaction entry and a secondtransaction entry, wherein each matching pair is identified based on adetermination that a confidence metric for the matching pair is greaterthan a confidence threshold associated with the matching cycle, andwherein, for each matching pair, the first transaction entry and secondtransaction are excluded from the remaining set of first transactionentries and the remaining set of second transaction entries,respectively; and analyzing, subsequent to the one or more matchingcycles, the remaining set of first transaction entries and the remainingset of second transaction entries to identify a set of incongruoustransaction entries and determine one or more remediations for one ormore of the incongruous transaction entries.
 21. One or morecomputer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software thatis operable when executed by one or more computing systems associatedwith a receiver processor to: receive, from an external server by thereceiver processor, a transaction authorization request to authorize atransaction associated with a transfer of resources to a receivingentity from a user, wherein the transaction authorization requestcomprises publicly routable account credentials of a virtual bankaccount (VBAN) generated by the receiver processor, wherein the VBAN isassociated with the receiving entity, the user, and a stored valuebalance of an external resource account associated with the user, andwherein the external resource account is generated by a receiverfinancial entity; retrieve, from a VBAN database by the receiverprocessor, a transaction resource configuration of the VBAN fortransactions associated with the receiving entity and the user, whereinthe transaction resource configuration is decoupled from the externalresource account; determine, by the receiver processor, whether one ormore parameters of the transaction resource configuration of the VBANare satisfied based on metadata associated with the transactionauthorization request; and transmit, to the external server, responsiveto determining whether the one or more parameters of the transactionresource configuration are satisfied, a transaction authorizationresponse indicating whether the transaction is authorized, wherein thetransaction being authorized is based on the one or more parameters ofthe transaction resource configuration of the VBAN being satisfied, andwherein the transaction being authorized causes the stored value balanceassociated with the external resource account to be reduced based on thetransfer of resources associated with the transaction.
 22. A receiverprocessor comprising: one or more processors; and a non-transitorymemory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable bythe processors, the processors operable when executing the instructionsto: receive, from an external server by the receiver processor, atransaction authorization request to authorize a transaction associatedwith a transfer of resources to a receiving entity from a user, whereinthe transaction authorization request comprises publicly routableaccount credentials of a virtual bank account (VBAN) generated by thereceiver processor, wherein the VBAN is associated with the receivingentity, the user, and a stored value balance of an external resourceaccount associated with the user, and wherein the external resourceaccount is generated by a receiver financial entity; retrieve, from aVBAN database by the receiver processor, a transaction resourceconfiguration of the VBAN for transactions associated with the receivingentity and the user, wherein the transaction resource configuration isdecoupled from the external resource account; determine, by the receiverprocessor, whether one or more parameters of the transaction resourceconfiguration of the VBAN are satisfied based on metadata associatedwith the transaction authorization request; and transmit, to theexternal server, responsive to determining whether the one or moreparameters of the transaction resource configuration are satisfied, atransaction authorization response indicating whether the transaction isauthorized, wherein the transaction being authorized is based on the oneor more parameters of the transaction resource configuration of the VBANbeing satisfied, and wherein the transaction being authorized causes thestored value balance associated with the external resource account to bereduced based on the transfer of resources associated with thetransaction.